Rocketry with Solid Propellants

Contents: Preface. Section I: Theoretical Rocket Propellant Ballistics: 1. Rockets: classification and components. 2. Solid propellants: processing and properties. 3. Internal ballistics: domain and derivations.  4. Staging of rockets : essence and examples 5. Performance prediction of rockets. Section II: Predictive Rocket Propellant Ballistics: 6. Solid cylindrical configurations. 7. Tubular and multi-tubular configurations. 8. Multi-perforated configurations. 9. Internal star and fin port configurations.10. Simple configurations and numerical. Section III: Practical Rocket Propellant Ballistics: 11. Static evaluation of rockets. 12. Ballistics from pressure-time curves. 13. Ballistics from thrust-time curves. 14. Advanced evaluations of firing curves. 15. Combustion instability in solid rocket propellants. Appendices. Subject Index.

Unique book on Internal Ballistics of Solid Propellants based rockets, prepared in 3 modules of 5 chapters each. Module on Theoretical Ballistics covering theories, derivations, rocket equations under ideal conditions. Module on Predictive Ballistics, with derivations for various propellant configurations, which is not available so exhaustively in any contemporary book. Module on Practical Ballistic s covering static evaluations of rockets, which is generally available in journal articles, only. Each chapter has summary and review questions to make it suitable as textbook. Prepared with 150 illustrations (figures) and answer to numerical. Numerical values of ballistic parameters tabulated as 3 appendixes. Useful for amateur to professionals, researchers to producers, academicians to industries.