Rocket and Missile Technology
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Rocket and Missile Technology Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Rocket and Missile Technology (subject code 3170104) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170104)Unit 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF ROCKET PROPULSION
- Thrust equation
- Rocket Engine parameters
- Rocket Engine Nozzles Operating principle
- specific impulse of a rocket
- internal ballistics
- performance considerations of rockets
- types of igniters
- types of rocket engines
- Application of rocket engines
Unit 2 LIQUID PROPELLANT LOADING
- Propellant loading tolerances
- inventory & concept of ullage
- Volume versus mass loading & Loading measurement and control
- Outage control
- Fundamentals of liquid rocket combustion chamber
- propellant feed lines
- propellant tank outlet design
Unit 3 LIQUID AND HYBRID ROCKET PROPULSION
- Salient features of liquid propellant rockets
- selection of liquid propellants
- various feed systems and injectors for liquid propellant rockets
- thrust control and cooling in liquid propellant rockets and the associated heat transfer problems
- combustion instability in liquid propellant rockets
- Introduction to hybrid rocket propulsion
- standard and reverse hybrid systems
- combustion mechanism in hybrid propellant rockets
- applications and limitations
Unit 4 SOLID ROCKET PROPULSION
- Salient features of solid propellant rockets
- selection criteria of solid propellants
- propellant grain design considerations
- Erosive burning in solid propellant rockets
- combustion instability
- strand burner and T-burner
- applications and advantages of solid propellant rockets
Unit 5 Aerodynamics Design and Characteristics of Missile
- Introduction Missile
- Missile Classifications
- Types of Design and control
- Bodies of 5 Subject Code: 3170104 w.e.f
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