Jet Engine Detail Design: The Compressor
In this post the design of jet engine compressors will be discussed…
Jet Engine Design and Optimisation
For aircraft jet propulsion there are in general four distinct designs: the…
The Birth of the Jet: The Engine that Shrunk the World
In today’s time it is easy to take for granted the complex…
Lightweight rocket shells
One of the most important drivers in rocket design is the mass…
Designing Convergent-divergent Nozzles
With our new-found knowledge on supersonic flow and nozzles we can now…
An Application: Convergent-divergent Nozzles
In typical engineering applications, compressible flow typically occurs in ducts, e.g. engine…
Supersonic Aerodynamics: Designing Rocket Nozzles
(Caveat: There is a little bit more maths in this post than usual.…
Rocket Science 101: Fuel, engine and nozzle
· Maximise the mass ratio to achieve the highest amounts of delta-v. This…
The rocket equation
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, however, takes this into account. The motion of…


