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Introduction
ROCKET PROPULSION
A Multidisciplinary Field
A Course of Oppurtunities
Approach
Analysis:
Synthesis:
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APPROACHES TO PROFESSION
Specialization or/and Eclepticism
P-51 development at North American Aviation (NAA), Downey, Los Angeles, CA, USA
04/1940: British Air Commission (BAC) asks NAA to build Curtiss P-40s under licence
NAA answers they could quickly build a better plane (90 knots faster, 50% longer range)
BAC orders 320 planes on condition that first prototype be flown within 120 days
E. Schmued and R. Rice design from scratch and fly the 1st P-51 prototype in 117 days
Were they Specialists and Ecleptics?
Curtiss P-40
Fighter
NAA P-51
563 km/h
Speed
703 km/h
2,253 km
Range
3,347 km
9,450 m
Tangency
12,770 m
5,170 kg
TO weight
5,262 kg
1,377 CV
Power
1,612 CV
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APPROACHES TO EDUCATION
Specialization or Eclepticism?
Exhaustive education (Gentile, 1924):
no longer feasible today
Superficial education:
specialistic
depth
Specialistic education:
emphasizes details and techniques
limited professional cross-section
rapid obsolescence
discourages flexibility and broad-mindedness
ecleptic
superficial
engineering
Ecleptic education:
emphasizes fundamentals and multi-disciplinary approaches
wider professional cross-section
long-term orientation capability
encourages flexibility and broad-mindedness
Intuition is perspiration:
insight is obtained through experience
continuously
expanding
disciplines
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
Problem Solving
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler (Albert Einstein)
To err is human; to make real mess, you need a computer (Unknown, yet wise)
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STUDY TIPS
Teaching and Learning
Teaching objectives:
promoting independent interpretation of information, not providing pre-cooked solutions
Learning objectives:
acquiring the capability of elaborating information to generate solutions of new problems
a personal experience (nobody can learn in your place)
corollary: homeworks are far more effective than in-class excercises
The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions
where it is almost superfluous (Gibbon)
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is (Isaac Asimov)
Time-sharing:
studying theory:
homework making:
I listen and forget. I see and remember. I make and understand. (ancient Chinese proverb)
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MATERIAL, GRADING & TIME SHARING
Course Types
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A COURSE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Teachers and Students
My take home final exam of Advanced Mathematics for Engineering (March 18, 1982):
I teach for the students really interested in learning. Those students dont cheat,
(Jim Knowles, 1988, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA)
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ON YOUR WORK
Build Your Self-Confidence and Motivate Yourself
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it (Malcolm Forbes)
Rem tene, verba sequentur (Cato the Elder)
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new (Albert Einstein)
In the long run fortune leans on the side of those who most deserve it (H. K. von Moltke)
Successful people (...) go looking for the conditions they desire and, if they do not find
them, create them (George Bernard Shaw)
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled (Richard
Feynman)
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. (...) Therefore all progress depends on
unreasonable people (George Bernard Shaw)
It is always silly to give advise, but to give good advise is fatal (Oscar Wilde)
The measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him no good (S. Johnson)
Introduction
USEFUL BACKGROUND MATERIAL
Fundamentals of:
Thermal-Fluid Sciences:
applied thermodynamics, heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation)
fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics
Applied Mathematics:
calculus, series, ODEs, PDEs, geometry, vector and tensor analysis
complex calculus, ODEs, special functions, EVPs and BVPs
numerical analysis, multiple nonlinear equations, integration, ODEs, PDEs
computer programming, BASIC, FORTRAN, C, MathLab, MathCad, etc.
Manufacturing Technologies
Aircraft Propulsion:
cycles, engines, turbomachines, operation parameters, requirements, applications
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Rocket Propulsion
Hill P., Peterson C., 1992, Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, Addison
Wesley Publ. Co., 2nd edition (excellent introductory text, even balance of fundamentals and
technology).
Sutton G. P., 1992 , Rocket Propulsion Elements, John Wiley & Sons (elementary, more
specialized, more details, more dispersive).
Oates G. C., 1988, Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion, AIAA
Education Series (less complete, more monographic, lots of nice excercises).
Humble R.W., Henry G.N. and Larson W.J., 1995, Space Propulsion Analysis and Design,
McGraw Hill College Custom Series (good elementary text, less fundamentals, more
specialized, more emphasis on design trends and trade-offs, several case-studies).
Huzel D. K. and Huang D. H., 1992, Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant
Rocket Engines, AIAA (elementary text focused on technology aspects, lots of design
details and empirical information).
Jensen G. E. & Netzer T. W., editors, 1996, Tactical Missile Propulsion, AIAA, Progress
in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 170 (advanced text on rocket missile propulsion).
Isakowitz S.J., 1995, International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems, AIAA.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Rocket Propulsion (continued)
Yang V., Habiballah M., Hulka J. and Popp M., editors, 2004, Liquid Rocket Thrust
Chambers: Aspects of Modeling, Analysis and Design, AIAA, Vol. 200.
De Luca L., Price E.W and Summerfield M. editors, 1992, Nonsteady Burning and
Combustion Stability of Solid Propellants, AIAA, Progress in Aeronautics and
Astronautics, Vol. 143.
Yang V. Brill T.B., Wu-Zhen Ren editors, 2000, Solid Propellant Chemistry, Combustion
and Motor Interior Ballistics, AIAA, Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 185.
Yang V. & Anderson W., editors, 1995, Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Instability,
AIAA, Vol. 169.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Airbreathing Propulsion
Hill P., Peterson C., 1992, Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, Addison
Wesley Publ. Co., 2nd edition (excellent introductory text, even balance of fundamentals and
technology).
Kerrebrock, 1992, Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines, Cambridge University Press, 2nd
edition (fundamentals of gas turbine engines and hypersonic air breathing engines, focuses
on general concepts and ideas, not details; great for thinking).
Oates G.C., 1989, Aircraft Propulsion Systems Technology and Design, AIAA Education
Series (monographic on gas turbine engine/inlet/airframe system performance, integration
and technology, lots of nice excercises).
Murthy S.N.B. and Murray E.T., ed., 1996, Developments in High-Speed Propulsion
Systems, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 165, AIAA.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Fluid Mechanics
Saberski R.H., Acosta A.J., Hauptmann E.G., 1989, Fluid Flow, Macmillan Publishing
Co., excellent first course in fluid mechanics, good introduction to turbomachinery flow.
White F.E., 1974, Viscous Fluid Flow, McGraw Hill, excellent book on viscous fluid
dynamics, very pleasant to read.
Sherman F.S., 1990, Viscous Flow, McGraw-Hill, excellent book on viscous fluid
dynamics, advanced treatment, not very easy.
Betchov R.& Criminale W.O. Jr., 1967, Stability of Parallel Flows, Academic Press,
introductory text on fluid dynamic stability.
Drazin P.G. & Reid W.H., 1981, Hydrodynamic Stability, Cambridge University Press,
more advanced text on fluid dynamic stability.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
Eckert & Drake, 1972, Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer, MacGraw Hill Inc., excellent
book on heat transfer, not too up to date, slightly unusual notations.
Anderson J. D. Jr., 1989, Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics, MacGraw
Hill, introductory text on aerothermodynamics, very pleasant to read.
Vincenti W.G. & Kruger C.H., 1986, Physical Gas Dynamics, Krieger Publ. Co., Malabar,
FL, USA.
Mitchner M. & Kruger C.H., 1973, Partially Ionized Gases, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Acoustics
Morse P.M. & Ingard K.U., 1968, Theoretical Acoustics, Princeton Univ. Press,
Princeton, NJ, USA; classical reference in acoustics, quite good, extensive and plainly
explained.
Combustion
Kuo K. K., 1986, Principles of Combustion, John Wiley & Sons Inc., fundamental text on
combustion, rather complete, a bit dispersive.
Turns, S.R., 1996, An Introduction to Combustion, McGraw Hill, good and readable but
more elementary book.
Oran E. S. and Boris J. P., editors, 1991, Numerical Approaches to Combustion Modeling,
AIAA, Vol. 135 (advanced monographic text on combustion modeling).
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Turbomachinery
Brennen C. E., 1995, Hydrodynamics of Pumps, Concepts ETI, Inc., P.O. Box 643,
Norwich, Vt, USA 05055, excellent book on research aspects of turbopumps.
Aungier, R. H., 2000, Centrifugal Compressors, ASME Press, New York, NY, USA.
Lakshminarayana B., 1996, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachines, John
Wiley & Sons Inc., excellent advanced book on turbomachines.
Two-Phase Flows
Brennen C. E., 1995, Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics, Oxford University Press, excellent
book on research aspects of bubbly cavitating flows.
Wallis G.B., 1969, One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow, MacGraw Hill, standard refeence
for two-phase flows.
Carey, van P., 1992, Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena, Taylor and Francis.
Rotordynamics
Ehrich F.F., 1999, Handbook of Rotordynamics, Krieger Publ. Co., Malabar, FL, USA.
Childs, D., 1993, Turbomachinery Rotordynamics, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Background Material on Calculus and Analysis
Churchill, Brown & Verhey, 1974, Complex Variables and Applications, McGraw Hill.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Applied Mathematics
Hildebrand F.B., 1976, Advanced Calculus for Applications, Prentice-Hall Inc., classical
and excellent text on real ODEs, Laplace transforms, numerical methods, special functions,
BVPs, vector analysis, PDEs, and complex analysis.
Numerical Methods
Press W., Teulkowsky S., Vetterling W. & Flannery B., 1992, Numerical Recipes in
FORTRAN, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press; simply excellent book, very intuitive.
Introduction
DOCUMENTING YOUR WORK
Tips for Effective Documentation
Illustrate the relevance of the activity and identify its motivations and engineering impacts
Present the state-of-the-art and acknowledge previous work to clarify your starting point
Define the objectives (in the light, of course, of what has actually been achieved)
Illustrate the logical and operational path used to move rationally and orderly from the stateof-the-art to the objectives, clearly identifying your original contributions
Present the conclusions, i.e. the novel aspects (either positive or negative) learned from the
activity (not a summary)
Common Errors
Lack of synthesis, logical consistency and style, syntax and/or orthographic errors.
Figures without the indication of the measurement units on the axes and/or with unreadable
legends and/or with curves and diagrams with little distinguishable colors.
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PRESENTING YOUR WORK
Tips for Effective Presentations
Limit excessive details that might confuse the listener (classical error in trying to promote
ones hard work)
Use lists of synthetic key points (just nouns and adjectives) and lot of figures
Do not use long sentences (the audience cannot read them and listen to you at the same time)
Avoid excessive use of animations/overlaps (they do not show properly in paper copies)
Expand key points verbally, hopefully confirming the audiences preliminary understanding