MAE 582 - Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, and Mechanical Engineering MS students only.
Thrust and specific impulse. Compressible flows. Detailed analysis of liquid, solid and hybrid propulsion systems. Includes propellants, injection systems, combustion and chemical equilibrium, thrust chambers, nozzles and plumes. Electro-thermal thrusters. Plasmas and electromagnetic thrusters.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-Problems 3 hours)