Rocketry

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Curated references and my own articles on propulsion and rocket design — work published or shared openly for anyone who wants to go deeper.

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Design of a Rocket Nozzle's Divergent Section by means of a Bézier Curve Approximation

Esteban Jiménez Sánchez

A methodology for designing a rocket nozzle's divergent (bell) section using a quadratic Bézier curve instead of a pure algebraic parabola. The article shows that a true algebraic parabola doesn't satisfy the geometric requirements of the standard design method — and corrects a design error from the author's own undergraduate thesis.

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