Engineering · Aerospace Engineering
A topic within Aerospace Engineering, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
Dieter K. Huzel & David H. Huang
Lays out the complete engineering design sequence for a liquid rocket engine — combustion chamber, injector, turbopump, cooling — as practised at Rocketdyne, treating rocket engine design as systems engineering under extreme thermal and structural loads.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Consolidates design practice for rocket nozzle contours and area ratios into a single design-criteria monograph, arguing that nozzle performance losses are predictable from a small number of geometric parameters rather than requiring case-by-case testing.
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