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Rocket Propulsion NPTEL

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Resources: OpenCourseware from NPTEL (India), Sheridan College, MIT, UC

Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 41

Lesson content
  • Lec-01 Introduction  
  • Lec-02 Motion in Space  
  • Lec-03 Rotational Frame of Reference and Orbital Velocities  
  • Lec-04 Velocity Requirements  
  • Lec-05 Theory of Rocket Propulsion  
  • Lec-06 Rocket Equation and Staging of Rockets  
  • Lec-07 Review of Rocket Principles: Propulsion Efficiency  
  • Lec-08 Examples Illustrating Theory of Rocket Propulsion and Introduction to Nozzles  
  • Lec-09 Theory of Nozzles  
  • Lec-10 Nozzles Shapes  
  • Lec-11 Area Ratio of Nozzles:Under-expansion and Over-expansion  
  • Lec-12 Characteristic Velocity and Thrust Coefficient  
  • Lec-13 Divergence Loss in Conical Nozzles and the Bell Nozzle  
  • Lec-14 Unconventional Nozzles and Problems in Nozzles  
  • Lec-15 Criterion for Choice of Chemical Propellants  
  • Lec-16 Choice of Fuel-Rich Propellants  
  • Lec-17 Performance Prediction Analysis  
  • Lec-18 Dissociation of Products of Combustion  
  • Lec-19 Shifting Equilibrium and Frozen Flow in Nozzles  
  • Lec-20 Factors Influencing Choice of Chemical Propellants  
  • Lec-21 Low Energy Liquid Propellants and Hybrid Propellants  
  • Lec-22 Introduction to Solid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-23 Burn Rate of Solid Propellants and Equilibrium pressure in Solid Propellants Rockets  
  • Lec-24 Design Aspects of Solid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-25 Burning Surface Area of Solid Propellant Grains  
  • Lec-26 Ignition of Solid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-27 Review of Solid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-28 Feed Systems for Liquid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-29 Feed System Cycles for Pump Fed Liquid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-30 Analysis of Gas Generator and Staged Combustion Cycles and Introduction to  
  • Lec-31Injectors,Cooling of Chamber and Mixture Ratio Distribution  
  • Lec-32 Efficiencies due to Mixture Ratio Distribution and Incomplete Vaporization  
  • Lec-33 Pumps and Turbines; Propellant Feed System at Zero "g" Conditions  
  • Lec-34 Review of Liquid Bi-propellant Rockets and Introduction to Mono-propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-35 Introduction to Hybrid Rockets and a Simple Illustration of Combustion Instability  
  • Lec-36 Combustion Instability in Solid Propellant and Liquid Propellant Rockets  
  • Lec-37 Wave models of Oscillation  
  • Lec-38 Mechanisms Causing Instabilities and Strategies for Avoiding Combustion Instability  
  • Lec-39 Electric and Magnetic Fields and the Electrostatic Thruster  
  • Lec-40 Electrical Thrusters  
  • Lec-41 Advances in Rocket Propulsion 
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