Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines

Good

This book is a fantastic introduction to the design of liquid rocket engines in that it covers every component, from the thrust chamber itself to turbopumps, valves, propellant tanks and control systems. It goes over the relevant theory for each subsystem, and provides guidelines for their design based on NASA's experience. Solved design examples are provided in each section. There are also many engineering drawings from various existing engines that "show how it's done", although I wish they were of better quality. Another gripe is the use of Imperial units, but there's no avoiding that in US aerospace literature. I would strongly recommend the NASA SP-8xxx "Space Vehicle Design Criteria" monographs on chemical propulsion, available for free in PDF format, to go with this book. Although they're not as up-to-date, they go more in-depth and the illustrations are impeccable.

現代の技術の粋を集めて作った液体燃料ロケットは宇宙開発に欠かす事が出来ません。冷戦時代から現代に到るまでしのぎを削る開発競争が繰り広げられてきましたが、近年では、ロシアで原型が開発されたエンジンを米国の会社が改良するという例も徐々に増えつつあります。本書はそのような液体燃料ロケットエンジンについて詳しく書かれています。

Written by engineers from Rockwell International's Rocketdyne division, this book is the most comprehensive of its type. At the start it actually says that it was written with the intention that you could give it to a new engineer, and by the end of the book they would be ready to start assignments on rocket engineering. Unlike other books, such as Rocket Propulsion Elements, this book goes into the specifics of component design, covering just about all components of the engine as comprehensively as possible. It's very easily readable, too. The only problem that I have is that the units are in Imperial, but other than that the book is incredible.

Libro muy técnico y es lo que me esperaba. Ideal para los que se dedican o les gustan los cohetes.