AEE477 SPACE PROPULSION
| Course Code: |
5720477 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
5.0 |
| Department: |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assoc.Prof.Dr. HALÝL ERSÝN SÖKEN |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
| Prerequisite: |
Set 1: 5720334
|
| The course set above should be completed before taking
AEE477 SPACE PROPULSION . |
Course Content
Functional requirements of aerospace propulsive devices. Mission analysis. Fundamental performance relations. Rocket propulsion systems for launch, orbital, and interplanetary flight. Modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines. Engineering and environmental limitations. Propellant feed systems, turbopumps. Combustion processes in liquid, solid and hybrid rockets. Thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse. Nozzle flows including real gas and kinetic effects.
