Introduction to Rocket Propulsion

Week 1: Introduction, Types of Rocket Engines, Applications of Rocket Engines

Week 2: Aerothermodynamics of Rocket Engines, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Elements of thermodynamics, Combustion

Week 3: Ideal Rocket Engine, Thrust Equation, Performance parameters

Week 4: Rocket Engine Ideal Nozzle, Real Nozzles, Performance parameters, Introduction to Space Flight Performance 
Week 5:  Types of Orbit, Multistaging of rocket, Rocket Propellant

Week 6: Types of Propellant & its Selection, Introduction to Solid Propellant Rocket Engine, Components of SPRE

Week 7: Regression rate relation, Types of grains, Internal Ballistic

Week 8: Evolution of Burning Surface, Ignition System

Week 9: Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine, Types of liquid rocket engines, Combustion of liquid propellant

Week 10: Combustion Chamber Geometry, Types of liquid rocket engines, Injectors, Feed system

Week 11: Combustion Instability, Ignition System, Hybrid rocket Engine

Week 12: Rocket Heat transfer, Types of Cooling System

Dr. Debi Prasad Mishra is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. His areas of research interest include combustion, computational fluid dynamics, atomization, etc. He was conferred with the Indian Oil Golden Jubilee Professional Chair in IIT Kanpur. He was a Visiting Professor in 2002 at the Tokyo-Denki University, Japan. He is the recipient of several awards Some of them are Young Scientist Award, Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee Memorial Award, Samanta Chadrasekhar and Vikash Prerak Sanman, National Design Award in Mechanical Engineering, Excellence in Aerospace Education and etc. He had served as an Assistant Editor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier, USA. Besides this, he also serves as an editorial board member of Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taylor & Francis, and International Journal of Turbo and Jet engines. Dr. Mishra has six Indian patents and around 218 research papers in refereed Journals and in conference proceedings to his credit. He has authored five textbooks titled “Fundamentals of Combustion”, “Engineering Thermodynamics” and “Gas Turbine Propulsion”, “Experimental Combustion” and “Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion”. He is also serving as a managing trustee of the International Foundation of Humanistic Education. He is instrumental in making all India level group, Awake Mother India which is involved actively to rejuvenate our Mother land. He is working to revitalize and popularize the ancient Indian science and technology heritage among youth. He has published two books, “Glimpses of Ancient Indian Science and Technology” and “Forays into Ancient Indian Science and Technology”. Over last 7 years, he has delivered several lectures on ancient Indian science & technology and culture & tradition to more than 45, 000 students across India. In this last year itself, he has interacted with more than 18, 000 students and motivated them to work for rejuvenating our glorious Mother India

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