AE 681 - Combustion of Solid Propellant

 

Autumn 2023

Prof. Nagendra Kumar

Author: Apoorva Kanti

Pre-requisite courses: None

Pre-requisite skills: None

Course Content in Brief:

  • Combustion of solid propellant

Motivation behind taking this course: Interested after summer intern


Evaluation Structure:

  • Midsem
  • Endsem
  • One assignment

Attendance Policy: None

Difficult level of Projects/Assignments: 3/5

Quizzes/midsem/endsem difficult level on a scale 1-5: 4/5

Level of effort you put into the course: 3/5

Feedback on Lectures (in terms of lecture delivery or ease of understanding, prof’s teaching style): It’s was too theoretical and at times hot boring rest was good

References OR online resources: Nil


Who can take this course?: Someone who is really interested in propulsion might find it interesting


Autumn 2023

Prof. Nagendra Kumar

Author: Hitesh Kumar

Pre-requisite courses: None

Pre-requisite skills: None

Course Content in Brief:

  • Discussed on solid propellants and their thrust calculations
  • Studied chemical composition and stoichiometry solutions of the propellants
  • Also the nozzle analysis

Motivation behind taking this course: To complete the department electives


Info about Projects/Assignments: Using CEA software we were asked to plot T adiabatic and I sp curves

Evaluation Structure:

  • 25 - midsem
  • 50 - endsem
  • 25 - project

Attendance Policy: Nil almost

Difficult level of Projects/Assignments: 3/5

Quizzes/midsem/endsem difficult level on a scale 1-5: 4/5

Level of effort you put into the course: 5/5

Feedback on Lectures (in terms of lecture delivery or ease of understanding, prof’s teaching style): While time sir used to write on board, they were good on delivery part, but content of the course was huge. In exams we were asked from specific content of course. Effectively I can say only 4 topics were used to handle the problems in the exam.

References OR online resources: Some books were suggested but I couldn’t find relevant course content. I might be my fault. No slides or any Tutorials were provided.


General Fundae: Come to class and take the notes, go through the notes.

Who can take this course?: PHD peeps


Autumn 2023

Prof. Nagendra Kumar

Author: Gauri Maheshwari

Pre-requisite courses: None

Pre-requisite skills: None

Course Content in Brief:

  • Solid propellant, content mostly same as AE330

Motivation behind taking this course: Sir provide ques bank for endsem and midsem, also quite chill course


Info about Projects/Assignments: 1 project, lengthy but simple

Difficult level of Projects/Assignments: 2/5

Quizzes/midsem/endsem difficult level on a scale 1-5: 2/5

Level of effort you put into the course: 2/5