Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Rocket Propulsion Instructor
Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Rocket Propulsion Instructor
Luca dAgostino:
Office: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Via Gerolamo Caruso, 56126 Pisa
tel. 050 2217211
Laboratory: Alta S.p.A., 5 Via A. Gherardesca, 56121, Ospedaletto (Pisa)
tel. 050 967211
Home: Viale Giovanni Pisano 34, 56123 Pisa
tel. 050 554388, usually at lunch and dinner time
Student Reception
Flexible:
possibly at the end of classes
otherwise by appointment, usually in the mornings at DIA
Exams
Oral examinations:
sessions: one per month during allowed periods, usually the last Mondays of each month
dates: established by common agreement with students, usually on Monday mornings
Introduction
ROCKET PROPULSION
A Multidisciplinary Field
Approach
Analysis:
for detailed understanding of different aspects and their interactions
Synthesis:
for relative assessment and integration of all aspects
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EDUCATION APPROACH
Specialization or Eclepticism?
Exhaustive education (Gentile, 1924):
no longer feasible today
Superficial education:
specialistic
depth
ecleptic
Specialistic education:
emphasizes details and techniques
limited professional cross-section
rapid obsolescence
discourages flexibility and broad-mindedness
continuously
expanding
superficial
engineering
Ecleptic education:
emphasizes fundamentals and multi-disciplinary approaches
wider professional cross-section
long-term orientation capability
encourages flexibility and broad-mindedness
Intuition is perspiration:
insight is obtained through experience
disciplines
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
Problem Solving
Real-life problems are often complex and with insufficient, excessive or fuzzy information
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STUDY TIPS
Teaching and Learning
The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions
where it is almost superfluous (Gibbon)
Teaching objectives:
promoting independent interpretation of information, not providing pre-cooked solutions
A bunch of data is not science more than a bunch of stones is a house (J.H. Poincar)
Learning objectives:
elaboration of information to generate solutions of new problems
a personal experience (nobody can learn in your place):
homeworks are far more effective than in-class excercises
Time-sharing:
studying theory:
homework making:
I listen and forget. I see and remember. I make and understand. (ancient Chinese proverb)
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MATERIAL, GRADING & TIME SHARING
Course Types
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ON YOUR WORK
Motivate Yourself
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it (Malcolm Forbes)
In the long run fortune leans on the side of those that most deserve it (von Moltke Sr.)
Successful people in this world are those that go looking for the conditions they desire and,
if they do not find them, create them (G.B. Shaw)
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new (Albert Einstein)
Rem tene, verba sequentur(Grasp the subject, words will follow, Cato the Elder)
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A COURSE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Teachers and Students
I teach for the students who are really interested in learning. Those students dont cheat,
(Jim Knowles, 1988, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA)
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USEFUL BACKGROUND MATERIAL
Fundamentals of:
Thermal-Fluid Sciences:
applied thermodynamics, heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation)
fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics
Applied Mathematics:
calculus, series, ODEs, PDEs, geometry, vector and tensor analysis
complex calculus, ODEs, special functions, EVPs and BVPs
numerical analysis, multiple nonlinear equations, integration, ODEs, PDEs
computer programming, BASIC, FORTRAN, C, MathLab, MathCad, etc.
Manufacturing Technologies
Aircraft Propulsion:
cycles, engines, turbomachines, operation parameters, requirements, applications
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Rocket Propulsion
Hill P., Peterson C., 1992, Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, Addison
Wesley Publ. Co., 2nd edition (excellent introductory text, even balance of fundamentals and
technology).
Sutton G. P., 1992 , Rocket Propulsion Elements, John Wiley & Sons (elementary, more
specialized, more details, more dispersive).
Oates G. C., 1988, Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion, AIAA
Education Series (less complete, more monographic, lots of nice excercises).
Humble R.W., Henry G.N. and Larson W.J., 1995, Space Propulsion Analysis and Design,
McGraw Hill College Custom Series (good elementary text, less fundamentals, more
specialized, more emphasis on design trends and trade-offs, several case-studies).
Huzel D. K. and Huang D. H., 1992, Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant
Rocket Engines, AIAA (elementary text focused on technology aspects, lots of design
details and empirical information).
Jensen G. E. & Netzer T. W., editors, 1996, Tactical Missile Propulsion, AIAA, Progress
in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 170 (advanced text on rocket missile propulsion).
Isakowitz S.J., 1995, International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems, AIAA.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Rocket Propulsion (continued)
De Luca L., Price E.W and Summerfield M. editors, 1992, Nonsteady Burning and
Combustion Stability of Solid Propellants, AIAA, Progress in Aeronautics and
Astronautics, Vol. 143.
Yang V. Brill T.B., Wu-Zhen Ren editors, 2000, Solid Propellant Chemistry, Combustion
and Motor Interior Ballistics, AIAA, Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 185.
Chiaverini M.J. and Kuo K. editors, 2007, Fundamentals of Hybrid Rocket Combustion and
Propulsion, AIAA, Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 218.
Yang V. & Anderson W., editors, 1995, Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Instability,
AIAA, Vol. 169.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Airbreathing Propulsion
Hill P., Peterson C., 1992, Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, Addison
Wesley Publ. Co., 2nd edition (excellent introductory text, even balance of fundamentals and
technology).
Kerrebrock, 1992, Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines, Cambridge University Press, 2nd
edition (fundamentals of gas turbine engines and hypersonic air breathing engines, focuses
on general concepts and ideas, not details; great for thinking).
Oates G.C., 1989, Aircraft Propulsion Systems Technology and Design, AIAA Education
Series (monographic on gas turbine engine/inlet/airframe system performance, integration
and technology, lots of nice excercises).
Murthy S.N.B. and Murray E.T., ed., 1996, Developments in High-Speed Propulsion
Systems, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 165, AIAA.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Fluid Mechanics
Saberski R.H., Acosta A.J., Hauptmann E.G., 1989, Fluid Flow, Macmillan Publishing
Co., excellent first course in fluid mechanics, good introduction to turbomachinery flow.
White F.E., 1974, Viscous Fluid Flow, McGraw Hill, excellent book on viscous fluid
dynamics, very pleasant to read.
Sherman F.S., 1990, Viscous Flow, McGraw-Hill, excellent book on viscous fluid
dynamics, advanced treatment, not very easy.
Betchov R.& Criminale W.O. Jr., 1967, Stability of Parallel Flows, Academic Press,
introductory text on fluid dynamic stability.
Drazin P.G. & Reid W.H., 1981, Hydrodynamic Stability, Cambridge University Press,
more advanced text on fluid dynamic stability.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
Eckert & Drake, 1972, Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer, MacGraw Hill Inc., excellent
book on heat transfer, not too up to date, slightly unusual notations.
Anderson J. D. Jr., 1989, Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics, MacGraw
Hill, introductory text on aerothermodynamics, very pleasant to read.
Vincenti W.G. & Kruger C.H., 1986, Physical Gas Dynamics, Krieger Publ. Co., Malabar,
FL, USA.
Mitchner M. & Kruger C.H., 1973, Partially Ionized Gases, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Acoustics
Moore P.M. & Ingard K.U., 1968, Theoretical Acoustics, Princeton Univ. Press,
Princeton, NJ, USA; classical reference in acoustics, quite good, extensive and plainly
explained.
Combustion
Kuo K. K., 1986, Principles of Combustion, John Wiley & Sons Inc., fundamental text on
combustion, rather complete, a bit dispersive.
Turns, S.R., 1996, An Introduction to Combustion, McGraw Hill, good and readable but
more elementary book.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Turbomachinery
Brennen C. E., 1995, Hydrodynamics of Pumps, Concepts ETI, Inc., P.O. Box 643,
Norwich, Vt, USA 05055, excellent book on research aspects of turbopumps.
Aungier, R. H., 2000, Centrifugal Compressors, ASME Press, New York, NY, USA.
Lakshminarayana B., 1996, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachines, John
Wiley & Sons Inc., excellent advanced book on turbomachines.
Two-Phase Flows
Brennen C. E., 1995, Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics, Oxford University Press, excellent
book on research aspects of bubbly cavitating flows.
Wallis G.B., 1969, One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow, MacGraw Hill, standard refeence
for two-phase flows.
Carey, van P., 1992, Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena, Taylor and Francis.
Rotordynamics
Ehrich F.F., 1999, Handbook of Rotordynamics, Krieger Publ. Co., Malabar, FL, USA.
Childs, D., 1993, Turbomachinery Rotordynamics, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Background Material on Calculus and Analysis
Churchill, Brown & Verhey, 1974, Complex Variables and Applications, McGraw Hill.
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REFERENCE TEXTS
Applied Mathematics
Hildebrand F.B., 1976, Advanced Calculus for Applications, Prentice-Hall Inc., classical
and excellent text on real ODEs, Laplace transforms, numerical methods, special functions,
BVPs, vector analysis, PDEs, and complex analysis.
Numerical Methods
Press W., Teulkowsky S., Vetterling W. & Flannery B., 1992, Numerical Recipes in
FORTRAN, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press; simply excellent book, very intuitive.