Ships Fire Prevention and Control 2 min read
How to Detect and Extinguish a Class B fire
What is a Class B fire? Class B fires are fires which involve flammable or combustible liquids. The presence of…
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The Scramjet
Scramjet released from B-52 carrier wing (1) The American Air Force has reported that a test of the unmanned hypersonic…
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Thrust Reversal
In a typical turbofan jet engine the oncoming airflow is compressed throughout a series of compressor stages, mixed with a…
Basics 5 min read
Turbine Cooling
The efficiency of the gas turbine cycle increases as the turbine entry temperature (TET) is increased. Therefore the hotter the…
Basics 7 min read
The Turbine
The turbine is at the heart of any jet engine with its primary task being to drive the compressor. As…
Basics 7 min read
Jet Engine Detail Design: The Compressor
In this post the design of jet engine compressors will be discussed leading to the definition of ballpark performance parameters.…
Basics 8 min read
Jet Engine Design and Optimisation
For aircraft jet propulsion there are in general four distinct designs: the turbojet, turbofan (or bypass engine), turboprop and turboshaft.…
Basics 5 min read
The Birth of the Jet: The Engine that Shrunk the World
In today’s time it is easy to take for granted the complex inventions that alleviate our everyday life. The modern…
Basics 10 min read
Lightweight rocket shells
One of the most important drivers in rocket design is the mass ratio, i.e. the ratio of fuel mass to…
Basics 5 min read
Designing Convergent-divergent Nozzles
With our new-found knowledge on supersonic flow and nozzles we can now begin to intuitively design a convergent-divergent nozzle to…