Chemical Rockets: Performance Prediction and Internal Ballistics Design

Description

The purpose of this book is to discuss, at the graduate level, the methods of performance prediction for chemical rocket propulsion. A pedagogical presentation of such methods has been unavailable thus far and this text, based upon lectures, fills this gap. The first part contains the energy-minimization to calculate the propellant-combustion composition and the subsequent computation of rocket performance. While incremental analysis is for high performance solid motors, equilibrium-pressure analysis is for low performance ones. Both are detailed in the book's second part for the prediction of ignition and tail-off transients, and equilibrium operation. Computer codes, adopting the incremental analysis along with erosive burning effect, are included. The material is encouraged to be used and presented at lectures. Senior undergraduate and graduate students in universities, as well as practicing engineers and scientists in rocket industries, form the readership. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 3-18 Chemical Potential (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 19-37 Mass Balance (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 39-50 Iteration Equations (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 51-103 Thermodynamic Derivatives (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 105-127 Thermodynamic Data (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 129-144 Theoretical Rocket Performance (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 145-191 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Introduction (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 195-204 Equilibrium-Pressure Analysis (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 205-249 Incremental Analysis (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 251-293 Computer Program (Subramaniam Krishnan, Jeenu Raghavan)....Pages 295-363 Back Matter ....Pages 365-538