Rocket Propulsion

3,000.00

Prof. K. Ramamurthi

Prof. V. Nagabhushana Rao

IIT Madras

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Description

The fundamental aspects of rockets and the current trends in rocket propulsion are dealt with in this course. Starting with description of motion in space, the requirements of rockets for placing space-crafts in different orbits and escaping the gravitational fields of the planets are examined. The operating principles and design aspects of solid propellant, liquid propellant, electrical, nuclear and other types of rockets are dealt with.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

BE/ME/MS/MSc/PhD

INDUSTRY SUPPORT

DRDO, ISRO, HAL, Space and Defense-related industries

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

K. Ramamurthi worked in ISRO and thereafter in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras. He is presently Chairman of the Combustion and Shock Wave Panel (CDSW) of ARMREB in DRDO and Chairman of Extramural Research in Combustion of SERB. His research interests are in detonation, blast waves, combustion instability and thermodynamics.

Dr. V. Nagabhushana Rao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras. He pursued his Ph.D at Cambridge University, U.K. His research interests include coupled interactions in turbomachines, transition to turbulence, CFD (DNS/LES), combustion and high performance computing.