Liquid
Rocket Engine Fluid-Cooled Combustion Chambers
by Aerojet,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Cal
Tech), the Space Division (Rockwell Corporation), Bell Aerospace, Rocketdyne,
and NASA Lewis Research Center scientists and engineers
This
is the comprehensive NASA "textbook" for the design of advanced liquid
propellant rocket engines. It's a necessary
technical reference resource for the serious rocket scientist,
engineer, and technician, reviewing state-of-the-art designs for liquid
propellant rocket engine cooling. The document provides both design
criteria and recommended engineering practices for their design, fabrication,
testing, and use.
Among
the many sections of discussion are regenerative cooling passages, tubes,
channel walls, manifolds, reinforcement, and materials. Structural
and design analysis are covered, as well as brazing alloys, prebraze preparations,
and brazing procedures. Chamber assembly and proof testing are also
studied.
Transpiration
and film cooling is also explained, in great detail. One chapter
is devoted to laboratory proof testing and operational problems.
Engine coatings are reviewed.
Most
of this data and information was classified
as secret until the time of this report.
This fine handbook will provide solid information for everyone who designs,
builds, tests, or uses serious liquid propellant rocket engines.
It's the official NASA design guide,
full of scientific data, rocketry information, and military missile lore,
providing data on all types of liquid rocket engine cooling systems.
And it's
the ideal text for "amateur" experimental rocket scientists. Even
though it's oriented toward "grand" rockets and spacecraft systems--like
Saturn, and the Apollo Lunar lander--the information applies as well to
"backyard" homebuilt liquid and monopropellant rocket motors! Heads
up, all of you serious "amateur" rocket scientists and engineers!
Prepared
at the NASA Lewis Research Center by scientists and engineers from the
Space Division (Rockwell Corporation), JPL, Cal Tech, Bell Aerospace, Aerojet,
Rocketdyne and NASA, this valuable book gives the practical information
you need. It's a book by the experts,
for the experts! The contents are the
result of more than 40 years of investigations by the world's largest propulsion
contractors. Literally millions of
dollars were spent obtaining this critical yet hard-to-find data.
This
sampling of the superb engineering drawings are shown at greatly
reduced resolution size:
Typical engineering drawings
(much smaller than in book)
We believe
this is perhaps the most complete and comprehensive
book ever written about the theoretical and practical engineering design
of liquid rocket engine cooling systems, and
their fabrication. It’s thick, heavy, and packed with accurate information
for the professional (and “amateur”) rocket scientist, engineer, technician,
and experimenter.
Plus
you'll have 5 pages of technical references (62 different studies are listed),
a 5-page glossary of arcane symbols and definitions used in engine design
... and
MUCH
more not mentioned here!
If you
design, build, test, or fly serious liquid rockets or missiles of any size,
you'll want this superb reference textbook. It’s especially useful
for “amateur” rocket builders--there's nothing else quite like it anywhere!
Very
hard to find and now out-of-print, this new limited edition has been republished
by the Rocket Science Institute. It's printed with a high-resolution
laser printer (not
photocopied) on high-quality, bright-white, 24-pound, acid-free paper,
and quality bound for years of reference use. 122 pages, large
and easy-to-read 11" x 8-1/2" size. $21.85
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