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Key reads

• Introduction to hybrid design

  : http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Introduction%20to%20hybrid%20design.pdfHybrid safety: http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Hybrid%20safety.pdf

• Hybrid safety (ignore sections on LOX and HTP)

• The physics of nitrous oxide

  : http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/The%20physics%20of%20nitrous%20oxide.pdf

• Modelling nitrous oxide

  : http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Modelling%20the%20nitrous%20run%20tank%20emptying.pdf

• 'Rocket Propulsion Elements', Sutton and Biblarz

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  • Chapters 2, 3, 6, 8, 15Propulsion section of the 2022 IREC technical report

  Not key but still great:

• Waxman’s thesis if you want to do modelling https://waterloorocketry.slack.com/files/UN8UU8AG4/F03NL56CNSG/waxman2_thesis_stanford.pdf

'Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines', a.k.a. Huzel & Huang

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• Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19710019929

• Nozzles

• The ‘nozzle’

• Propulsion section of the 2022 IREC technical report

  is a good overview of a typical design process.

• http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Thrust%20optimised%20parabolic%20nozzle.pdf is a bit esoteric, but neat

• Hybrid propellant properties http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Mass%20properties%20of%20a%20hybrid's%20liquid%20propellant.pdf

Hybrid engines and rocket stability http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Hybrid%20effects%20on%20stability.pdf

• http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/The%20physics%20of%20nitrous%20oxide.pdf

  • (good paper on nitrous oxide which is pretty counterintuitive to work with sometimes)

• http://www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Hybrid%20safety.pdf

  • (ignore sections on LOX and HTP)

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/11kR-U1wW976rSmz-LDRw9nkxaYwQ7zKL/view?usp=sharing

  (2022 IREC report - propulsion section is most relevant to you, but

  • Do take a glance at the other sections as well - learning . Learning about the rest of the rocket is helpful. you

  • You can the skip appendices/schedules/other nontechnical /formal stuff which is just there because it's required for the reportstuff for now, it’s just required for the repor

Not key but still useful / for reference:

• Waxman’s thesis if you want to do modelling (don’t worry you probably won’t need to use this)

• The thrust optimized parabolic nozzle (a bit esoteric, still neat)

• Hybrid propellant properties (relevant for flight dynamics)

• Hybrid engines and rocket stability (relevant for flight dynamics)

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wu03X2-UVpHXGEY0cWbmG_KR5w_1zfLT/view?usp=sharing (2018 FYDP pt.1)

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gshytGEK52xszuZxl6s1w71-1MVjOEMa/view?usp=sharing (2018 FYDP pt.2

  • The current Kismet v3 engine is derived from the original Kismet v1 engine which was a capstone design project by some old team members. These two FYDP reports give a ground-up design explanation of the engine.

  • Again you don't need to read all the formal report charts and schedules and stuff. But some of the appendices have interesting discussions of simulations and calculations)Read these as time allows, it's not like assigned homework lol. But if you read all of these you will have a lot of really useful context which makes working on new projects way easier. And feel free to ask me about absolutely anything, I like explaining stuff :)