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Questions related to the textbook "How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-fuel Rocket Engines" by Leroy Krzycki
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Need clarification of units on rocket nozzle equation
I have been working on modeling liquid rocket engines and have read the book How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid Fuel Rocket Engines, I had a question about the nozzle area and the units ...
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Need help on rocket nozzle equation
I saw this earlier post about a guy who needed help with his equation, but I was wondering about how they got one of his numbers. They said that their foot-pound/pound/degree Rankine (the gas constant ...
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How to calculate these engine parameters on my own?
I am a space enthusiast and am intrigued mostly by rockets. I recently found a book HOW to DESIGN, BUILD and TEST SMALL LIQUID-FUEL ROCKET ENGINES and have been fiddling around with rocket engine ...
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Help on Rocket Injector Equation
Hello can someone explain me how can I get the value of (6340) because when I try to solve the given values on the book I get (6423.980075) when I round it off it is still not the right answer can ...
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Help on Nozzle Throat Area Calculation
This is the equation of the nozzle throat area
This equation is based from a book called HOW to DESIGN, BUILD and TEST SMALL LIQUID-FUEL ROCKET ENGINES
This is the solution
The problem is I don’t ...
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How is this engine put together? [duplicate]
I'm going through How to DESIGN, BUILD and TEST SMALL LIQUID-FUEL ROCKET ENGINES and am confused how their sample engine is physically built together.
This is a picture of their assembly where the ...
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Cooling jacket calculation issue [duplicate]
I'm going through How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines. The reference explains how to calculate the water flow gap for the cooling jacket that surrounds the combustion ...
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Issue with units for a rocket nozzle throat area problem
I'm working through How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines. The guide explains calculating a rocket nozzle throat area using Eq. (7):
$$A_t = \frac{w_t}{P_t} \sqrt{\frac{R ...
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Problems with the "How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines" text
For those that have read or consulted the text: How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (Rocketlab/China Lake). Otherwise, see steps 10-13 here: https://risacher.org/rocket/...
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Challenges in Development of small scale liquid propellant engines [closed]
Being aeronautical engineering graduate, I have gone through huge literature regarding design of Liquid propellant engines(LPRs). But as I am planning to develop small LPR based on gasoline and oxygen....
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How to seal the connection between the combustion chamber and outer shell in this rocket engine model?
Here is rocket engine drawing. The combustion chamber made from copper and the outer shell from stainless steel. The coolant, either water or gasoline will be between
(source: wonderhowto.com)
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