....Actual
size is 11 x 8.5-inches
Design
of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines
Dieter
K. Huzel and David H. Huang
Rocketdyne
Division, North American Rockwell, Inc.
The single
most
comprehensive and complete text ever written
about the subject.
A true
masterwork that covers every aspect of the design and engineering of liquid
propellant rocket engines, written by two of the world's most respected
scientists, on a special contract for NASA.
This
is today's most widely used textbook on the
subject, with far more material (and in far
more detail) than George P. Sutton's classic "Rocket Propulsion Elements."
If you're
interested in serious learning on this topic, here is the one book
you'll need. It collects the decades
of experience and knowledge accumulated in military and aerospace development
and operational programs. This is a systematic presentation of the
large (and previously loosely-organized) body of existing successful design
techniques and practices. Its value and merit are obvious--these
rocket engines work: they've sent men to the Moon, satellites into orbit,
Space Shuttles to the International Space Station, and space exploration
vehicles to Mars and beyond!
The foreword
is by Wernher von Braun (former Director, Marshall Space Flight Center,
NASA). Contents include details about virtually every kind of modern
liquid propellant rocket propulsion system. It reviews, in great
detail--supported by exceptional engineering drawings--these many topics,
and more:
-
Introduction
to liquid propellant rocket engines (30 pages)
-
Rocket engine
design implements (32 pages)
-
Introduction
to sample calculations (18 pages)
-
Design of
thrust chambers and other combustion devices (70 pages; also covers ignition
and gas-generating devices, and combustion instability)
-
Design of
pressurized-gas propellant-feed systems (25 pages)
-
Design of
turbopump propellant-feed systems (87 pages)
-
Design of
controls and valves (66 pages)
-
Design of
propellant tanks (24 pages)
-
Design of
interconnecting components and mounts (30 pages)
-
Engine systems
design integration (46 pages)
-
Design of
liquid propellant space engines (22 pages)
Many
details -- all once highly secret
! -- are
given for engines and subcomponents used in many military and aerospace
systems, including:
-
F-1, M-1,
J-2, H-1, and E-1 engines
-
Atlas sustainers
-
Atlas MA-3
boosters
-
Thor
-
Agena
-
Titan II
1st and 2nd stage
-
Jupiter
-
Jupiter
storable
-
Redstone
-
Navaho
-
Vanguard
1st stage
Prepared
at the Rocketdyne Liquid Rocket Division (North American Rockwell Corporation)--leading
commercial makers of rocket engines for both military and aerospace applications--specifically
for NASA rocket scientists and engineers, this valuable book gives the
practical information you need to design and build a high-technology, state-of-the-art
liquid propellant rocket engine.
The contents
are the result of more than 45 years of investigations by the world's largest
propulsion contractors. Literally billions
of dollars were spent obtaining this critical
yet hard-to-find data and information.
In a
word, this is the most complete and comprehensive
book ever written about the theoretical
and practical engineering design of liquid propellant engines. It
covers exactly how one goes about designing, building, and testing an advanced
propulsion system that works reliably.
The detailed
information about thrust chamber cooling is alone worth the price of the
book! It’s very thick
(468 pages, almost two-inches!), heavy (two
pounds!),
and packed with accurate information for the professional (and “amateur”)
rocket scientist, engineer, technician, and experimenter.
There's
also a very detailed (10-pages) index! Numerous fine, NASA-quality
engineering drawings, figures, and tables supplement the technical material:
Typical
illustrations from the book (smaller than actual size)
If you
design, build, test, or fly serious rockets or missiles, you'll want this
superb reference textbook. It’s especially useful for “amateur” rocket
builders -- with an abundance of data, esoteric information, and once-secret
lore from the world's foremost rocket scientists: at Rocketdyne and NASA.
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 on high-quality, bright-white, acid-free paper for years
of reference use. 468 pages, large and easy-to-read 11" x
8-1/2" size.
The book
is very heavy, so Priority Mail within USA will be
$9.15. U.S. Media rate, $3.85. International Airmail postage (to
most destinations) US$ 16.50. International customers please click
here. ISBN
1-878628-34-8.
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