Philip Piper
California State University at Long Beach
Seminar Information
In Person: Engineering Building Unit 2 - Room 584
Range is a primary performance parameter for most vehicles, such as automobiles and airplanes. However, rockets' unique operating environment in orbit requires a different sort of parameter: delta-v. In this demonstration we will explore the rocket equation and the difficulties it has presented to engineers since its discovery in the early 1800s.
Philip Piper is an aerospace research engineer with the Combustion Devices branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He has been teaching and mentoring students
through a variety of avenues during his undergraduate and graduate educations at Yale and Purdue respectively. His primary research interests have been in liquid rocket propulsion, heat transfer, additive manufacturing, and inverse methods.