The study of propulsion involves majorly the fundamental operation plus design of the devices of aerospace propulsion, which includes both rocket power plants and air-breathing engines. In propulsion study, the gas dynamics of thermodynamics, internal flows, and the process of combustion that are used in these devices are put into detailed study. More studies are also given to engine components, such as nozzles, combustion chambers, pumps, inlet, compressors, and turbines. You will also treat some air-breathing engines, which include turbofans, turboprops, turbojets, scramjets, and ramjets.
You will also cover the systems of rocket propulsion such as liquid rocket engines, solid rocket motors, hybrid rockets, nuclear non-chemical systems, electric non-chemical systems, and advanced non-chemical systems. Parts of the work that are done still include combustion in energy systems and propulsion, simulations of fluid, computational modeling, and turbulence. Some other disciplines that are taken into consideration in the study of propulsion include aeroacoustics, atomization processes, fluid mechanics computation, turbo machinery aerodynamics, combustion, and heat transfer of particle flows.