Resources

Resources

This page gathers all documentation available on the numerous subjects linked to rocket science (and turbofans).

Books (online links)

Multi-domain

• Aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion by Gordon C. Oates. 1997.

Rocket engines

• Rocket propulsion elements by George Paul Sutton and Oscar Biblarz. 7th edition, 2001. Very complete.

• Modern engineering for design of liquid-propellant rocket engines by Dieter K. Huzel, David H. Huang and Harry Arbit. 1992.

Specific parts:

• Liquid rocket engine combustion instability by Vigor Yang and William E. Anderson. 1995.

• Liquid rocket thrust chambers: aspects of modeling, analysis, and design by Vigor Yang. 2004.

Turbines and turbofans

• The history of North American small gas turbine aircraft engines by Richard A. Leyes and William A. Fleming. 1999.

• Turbofan by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome and John McBrewster. 2009.

• Jet propulsion: a simple guide to the aerodynamics and thermodynamic design and performance of jet engines, by N. A. Cumpsty. 2003.

• Gas turbine theory by H. I. H. Saravanamuttoo, Gordon Frederick Crichton Rogers and Henry Cohen. 2001.

• Gas turbine engineering handbook by Meherwan P. Boyce. 2002.