AE6450: Course Overview
Catalog Description
Analysis and design of rocket engines including liquid, solid, hybrid and advanced propulsion systems.

Course Goals
A student successfully completing this course will:

  1. Gain a familiarity with common types of rocket propulsion systems.
  2. Be able to perform preliminary cycle design and performance analysis for rocket propulsion systems.
  3. Have a working knowledge of the basic operation and design requirements of chemical rocket propulsion components.
Prerequisites:
Equivalents of AE 3450 or AE 2010. Specific areas/concepts include:
  1. thermodynamic analysis, including conservation equations (mass, momentum, energy, and entropy - Second Law of Thermodynamics)
  2. one- and two-dimensional compressible flows
Suggested Text
    Rocket Propulsion Elements, George P. Sutton and Oscar Biblarz, 8th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2010 (or 9th ed. 2017). This text will supplement the lecture material; note: the assigned homework problems are not from the book.

In addition, the following texts may be helpful.