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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Kharagpur

The basic principle of rocket, Classification of rockets, Performance parameters, Brief description of solid propellant rockets, and Application of solid rockets

Introduction to solid propellants and propellant ingredients, Selection criteria for propellants, Generalclassification of solid propellants

An overview of premixed and diffusion flames, Combustion mechanism of Double-base propellants, Different zones of combustion (Preheated zone, Foam zone, Fizz zone, Dark Zone, and Secondary luminous zone/Flame zone), Dominant reactions

Combustion mechanism of DB propellants-contd. Analysis of burning rate (Vielle’s Law/Saint Robert’s Law) Decomposition and combustion of ammonium perchlorate (AP)-Introduction

Combustion of AP composite propellants (AP premixed flame, Primary diffusion flame, Secondary diffusion flame), Evaluation of burning rate, Effect of pressure and size of AP crystals on burning rate, Example problems on burning rate of solid propellants

Metal as fuel ingredient for rocket propulsion, Properties of metals and oxides, Metal particle combustion, Glassman criterion

Metal particle combustion (contd.), Effect of metals on combustion of propellants, Combustion products of metals, Recent and future developments on metal fuels in propellants

Introduction and theories of erosive burning, relative velocity, Experimental approach, Effect of propellant characteristics and chamber pressure on erosive burning, Effect of erosion on propellant burning rate