Introduction to Rocket Propulsion for Astronautics
暫譯: 宇航推進入門

本書探討推進系統的基本原則、性能及其獨特技術，這些系統為太空載具提供動力。它旨在以一種引人入勝且易於理解的方式介紹該主題，目標是清楚理解基本原則，提供推進的關鍵物理機制描述，並強調不同應用（如發射載具和太空探測器）的技術現狀。七個章節涵蓋了太空火箭推進的廣泛範疇，經過篩選以突顯主要觀念，而不犧牲最重要的結果。

Dr. Dora Musielak has a distinguished career in the aerospace industry and in academia characterized by many contributions through her scientific research, education, community service, and her devotion and tireless work in STEM education. She is a NASA Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, and the recipient of many recognitions.

Dr. Dora Musielak research areas range from high speed air breathing propulsion to advanced space propulsion and plasma rockets, to chaos in complex systems and fractal statistics. Her specialties include heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, turbulence and combustion. Her research strength is in her unique command of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation and numerical modeling of the fundamental phenomena in high speed reacting flows for aero-space propulsion applications.

Dr. Musielak's career has spanned more than twenty years during which she has established a national and international reputation for contributions in high-speed propulsion, working at several aerospace companies including Northrop Grumman, MSE Technologies, and most recently for Allied Techsystems (ATK). She has been invited to lecture at universities in Mexico, Panama, Italy, England, Spain, and in the United States. She has presented her research at national and international conferences.

Dr. Musielak's accomplishments can be classified into three categories, namely, research, education, and service to the community.

* As a NASA Graduate Research Fellow, Dora Musielak demonstrated that magnetic insulation leads to an increased performance of plasma rockets by reducing the heat transfer to the nozzle walls. Later on, she showed that the injection of mixing of chemically reacting hypersonic flows could be controlled by special injection schemes in scramjet engines to power hypersonic vehicles. She was awarded a NASA Faculty Research Fellowship to carry out this work at NASA Langley. In her most recent work, Dr. Musielak investigated routes to chaos in coupled Duffing oscillators.

The list of Dr. Musielak's contributions to higher education is long. It includes establishing research and educational programs in hypersonics at UTA and in the industry, organizing and giving professional short courses for AIAA, disseminating results of research and progress in space exploration programs among students in schools and universities in Europe and Latin America, setting an initiative to expand focus of and leading AIAA undergraduate team engine design competitions, and working as a mentor with the ASME Young Engineers Committee.

Dr. Musielak's leadership is well recognized in the professional community. She is active with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), participating in conferences and meeting, working with several AIAA committees and chairing the Education Sub Committee of the Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, and now she is the Communications chair of the High Speed Air Breathing Technical Committee (HSABPTC). She has also served on national review committees at the National Science Foundation (NSF), and was selected as a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Breakthrough Technologies for Commercial Supersonic Aircraft.

Dr. Musielak is the first woman in Latin America to be awarded the degree and title of Aeronautical Engineer from the Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Dr. Dora Musielak is also the author of several books, two of which she translated into Spanish.

Professor Dr. Dora Musielak is a rocket propulsion scientist engaged in research related to plasma rockets and antimatter propulsion. She has published several books, including Scramjet Propulsion: A Practical Introduction (2022). Wiley Aeronautic and Aerospace Engineering book series.

德拉·多拉·穆西拉克博士在航空航天產業和學術界擁有卓越的職業生涯，透過她的科學研究、教育、社區服務以及對STEM教育的奉獻和不懈努力，做出了許多貢獻。她是NASA的研究員、AIAA的副研究員，並獲得了多項榮譽。

多拉·穆西拉克博士的研究領域涵蓋從高速空氣呼吸推進到先進的太空推進和等離子火箭，還有複雜系統中的混沌和分形統計。她的專長包括熱傳遞、流體力學、熱科學、湍流和燃燒。她的研究優勢在於她對計算流體力學（CFD）模擬和高速反應流的基本現象數值建模的獨特掌握，這些應用於航空航天推進。

穆西拉克博士的職業生涯已超過二十年，在此期間，她在高速推進領域建立了國內和國際聲譽，曾在多家航空航天公司工作，包括諾斯羅普·格魯曼、MSE Technologies，以及最近的聯合技術系統公司（ATK）。她曾受邀在墨西哥、巴拿馬、義大利、英國、西班牙和美國的多所大學講授課程，並在國內外會議上展示她的研究成果。

穆西拉克博士的成就可分為三個類別，即研究、教育和社區服務。

* 作為NASA的研究生研究獎學金獲得者，多拉·穆西拉克證明了磁絕緣能通過減少熱傳遞到噴嘴壁來提高等離子火箭的性能。隨後，她展示了在超音速燃燒噴氣引擎中，化學反應的超音速流的混合注入可以通過特殊的注入方案來控制，以驅動超音速飛行器。她獲得了NASA的教職研究獎學金，以在NASA朗利進行這項工作。在她最近的研究中，穆西拉克博士探討了耦合的達芬振盪器中的混沌路徑。

穆西拉克博士對高等教育的貢獻清單相當長。它包括在UTA和業界建立超音速研究和教育計劃，為AIAA組織和提供專業短期課程，向歐洲和拉丁美洲的學校和大學的學生傳播太空探索計劃的研究成果和進展，發起擴大AIAA本科生引擎設計競賽的重點，並與ASME青年工程師委員會合作擔任導師。

穆西拉克博士的領導能力在專業社群中得到了廣泛認可。她活躍於美國航空航天學會（AIAA），參加會議和會議，與多個AIAA委員會合作，並擔任空氣呼吸推進技術委員會教育小組的主席，現在她是高速空氣呼吸技術委員會（HSABPTC）的通訊主席。她還曾在國家科學基金會（NSF）的國家審查委員會任職，並被選為國家研究委員會（NRC）商業超音速飛機突破技術委員會的成員。

穆西拉克博士是拉丁美洲第一位獲得墨西哥理工學院航空工程學位和頭銜的女性。多拉·穆西拉克博士也是幾本書的作者，其中兩本她翻譯成西班牙語。

穆西拉克博士是一位火箭推進科學家，從事與等離子火箭和反物質推進相關的研究。她出版了幾本書，包括《Scramjet Propulsion: A Practical Introduction》（2022），該書屬於Wiley航空和航空航天工程書系。