LIQUID ROCKETS AND PROPELLANTS by Bollinger, L. E., M. Goldsmith, and A. W. Lemmons, Jr. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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LIQUID ROCKETS AND PROPELLANTS

by Bollinger, L. E., M. Goldsmith, and A. W. Lemmons, Jr.

New York, 1960: Academic Press, 682 pages, $6.50

This book is Volume 2 of the series "Progress in Astronautics and Rocketry" (M. Summerfield, ed), and covers "Simulated High-Altitude Testing of Rockets," "Instrumentation of Combustion Instability," "Liquid Propellant Combustion," "Reaction Kinetics," "Propellant Selection," and "Rocket Engine Design." Selected chapter titles follow: "Experimental Investigation of Exhaust Diffusers for Rocket Engines," "A Large Rocket Ejector System," "An Integrated Combustion Instability Recording and Analysis Installation," "Instrumentation for Studies of Unstable Burning Phenomena," "Experimental Study of RP-1, UDMH and N2H4, Single-Droplet Burning in Air and in Oxygen," "Consideration of Hydrazine Decomposition," "Detonability of Ozone and Nitric Oxide," "Production and Properties of Liquid Ozone and Liquid Ozone-Oxygen Mixtures, a Review," "Comparative Applicability of Storable Propellants Effects of Specific Impulse and Density," "Analysis of Pressure Feasibility Limits in Regenerative Cooling of Combustion Chambers for Large Thrust Rockets," "Variable Thrust Rocket Engines," and "Starting Transients of Hypergolic Bipropellant Rockets."

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III