| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-05-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 636 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 37.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
This is the Sixth Edition of the leading textbook on rocket propulsion for courses in aerospace engineering. It covers the basic physical principles of rocket propulsion such as nozzle thermodynamics, heat transfer, flight performance, and fuel chemistry. It also includes the design rationale of components such as nozzles, fuel chambers, structures, and control systems. All rocket types are covered, i.e., liquid, solid, hybrid fueled, and electric propulsion systems.
With rocket propulsion technology advancing at an unprecedented rate and proliferating in other countries, the need for a totally revised edition of this benchmark work has never been greater. This new edition of Rocket Propulsion Elements covers the basic physical principles of rocket propulsion such as nozzle thermodynamics, heat transfer, flight performance, and propellant chemistry for all rocket types, including liquid, solid, hybrid fueled, and electric propulsion systems. Like its predecessors, this Sixth Edition of Rocket Propulsion Elements continues to offer a thorough introduction to basic principles, a description of their physical mechanisms and designs, and an understanding of how rocket propulsion is applied to flying vehicles. As in past editions, it delivers both the theory and practical application information on rocket propulsion for guided missiles, spaceflight, or satellite flight more clearly and comprehensively than any other work. Plus, it's been fully updated to include new advances in the field. The Sixth Edition of Rocket Propulsion Elements examines the latest changes in materials, system design, analytical simulations, propellants, applications, and manufacturing technologies. It features seven new chapters and new illustrations, examples, tables, references, equations, data and problems throughout the book. Rocket Propulsion Elements covers subjects that were not in the previous edition such as the advantages of liquid and solid propellant rockets, thrust vector control, and electric propulsion. There's also new coverage on rocket exhaust plumes, the selection of a rocket propulsion system, and safety issues. As a text for new students of rocket propulsionor a desktop reference for the growing number of professionals who need to become educated on the subject, Rocket Propulsion Elements, Sixth Edition can be an invaluable work.
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