JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Introduction: Space launch vehicles and military missiles- function, types, role, mission, mission profile, thrust profile, propulsion system, payload, staging, control and guidance requirements, performance measures, design, construction, operation- similarities and differences.

UNIT - II

Solid and Liquid Propulsion Systems: Solid propellant rocket motors, principal features, applications. Solid propellants- types, composition, properties, performance. Propellant grain- desirable properties, grain configurations, Liners, insulators and inhibitors-function, requirements, materials. Rocket motor casing-materials. Combustion system of solid rockets, igniters, types, construction. Nozzles-types, Liquid propellants- types, composition, properties, performance. Propellant tanks feed systems- pressurisation, turbo-pumps- valves and feed lines, injectors, starting and ignition. Engine cooling, support structure, control of engine starting and thrust build-up, liquid rocket combustion chamber

UNIT - III

Aerodynamics of Rockets and Missiles: Classification of missiles. Airframe components of rockets and missiles, Forces acting on a missile while passing through atmosphere, method of describing aerodynamic forces and moments, lateral aerodynamic moment, lateral damping moment, longitudinal moment of a rocket, lift and drag forces, drag estimation, body upwash and downwash in missiles. Rocket dispersion, re-entry body design considerations

UNIT - IV

Dynamics and Control of Rockets and Missiles: Tsiolskovsky's rocket equation- range in the absence of gravity, vertical motion in the earth's gravitational field, inclined motion, flight path at constant pitch angle, motion in the atmosphere, the gravity turn- the culmination altitude. Multi-staging. Earth launch trajectories- vertical segment, the gravity turn, constant pitch trajectory, orbital injection; Rocket thrust vector control-methods of thrust vector control for solid and liquid propulsion systems, thrust magnitude control, thrust termination

UNIT - V

Rocket Testing: Ground testing and flight testing- types of tests, test facilities and safeguards, monitoring and control of toxic materials, instrumentation and data management. Ground testing, flight testing, trajectory monitoring, post accident procedures, Description of a typical space vehicle launch procedure.

R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Sutton, G.P., and Biblarz, O., Rocket Propulsion Elements, 8th edition, Wiley- Interscience, 2010.
• 2. Cornelisse, J.W., Schoyer H.F.R. and Wakker, K.F., Rocket Propulsion and Space- flight Dynamics, Pitman, 1979.
• 3. Turner, M.J.L., Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion, 3rd edition, Springer, 2009.

REFERENCES

• 1. Chin, S.S., Missile Configuration Design, McGraw Hill, 1961
• 2. Ball, K.J., Osborne, G.F., Space Vehicle Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 1967. R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG. B.TECH. AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING