These will prepare you to hit the ground running and to become a propulsion god
Key reads
Propulsion section of the 2022 IREC technical report (starts on page 8)
Do take a glance at the other sections. Learning about the rest of the rocket is helpful.
You can the skip appendices/schedules/nontechnical stuff for now, it’s just required for the report
Hybrid safety (ignore sections on LOX and HTP)
'Rocket Propulsion Elements', Sutton and Biblarz
Incredibly useful and popular rocketry textbook; the “rocketeer’s bible”
Chapters 2, 3, 6, 8, 15
'Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines', a.k.a. Huzel & Huang
More focus on detailed mechanical design
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
Not key but still useful / for reference:
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 :)