A NASA Delta II Rocket. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Manuel Martinez-Sanchez
MIT Course Number
16.512
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This class focuses on chemical rocket propulsion systems for launch, orbital, and interplanetary flight. It studies the modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines. Thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse, and nozzle flows including real gas and kinetic effects will also be covered. Other topics to be covered include structural constraints, propellant feed systems, turbopumps, and combustion processes in solid, liquid, and hybrid rockets.