Ships Fire Prevention and Control 2 min read
How to Detect and Extinguish a Class A Fire
What is a Class A fire? Class A fires, also sometimes known as ‘ordinary combustible’ fires, involve solid materials of…
THE ARTICLE LIBRARY
All stories.
Ideas and explainers from across SenseCentral.
Basics 6 min read
An Application: Convergent-divergent Nozzles
In typical engineering applications, compressible flow typically occurs in ducts, e.g. engine intakes, or through the exhaust nozzles of afterburners…
Ships Fire Prevention and Control 3 min read
How High Pressure Water Mist Fire Fighting System For Ships Works?
The hyper mist or high pressure fog fire fighting system is installed for all important ship’s machinery systems in the…
Ships Fire Prevention and Control 3 min read
What chemicals are used in a fire extinguisher?
Fire extinguishers contain different chemicals, depending on the application. Handheld extinguishers, which are commonly sold at hardware stores for use…
Basics 9 min read
Supersonic Aerodynamics: Designing Rocket Nozzles
(Caveat: There is a little bit more maths in this post than usual. I have tried to explain the equations as…
Basics 13 min read
Rocket Science 101: Fuel, engine and nozzle
· Maximise the mass ratio to achieve the highest amounts of delta-v. This translates to carrying the maximum amount of fuel…
Basics 11 min read
The rocket equation
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, however, takes this into account. The motion of the rocket is governed by the conservation of momentum.…
Basics 6 min read
Rocket Science 101: Operating Principles
We covered the history of rocketry over the last 2000 years. By means of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation we also established that…
Basics 7 min read
New approaches
After the demise of the Space Shuttle programme in 2011, the US’ capability of launching humans into space was heavily restricted. NASA…
Basics 9 min read
The Space Race – to the moon and beyond
After WWII both the United States and the Soviet Union began heavily funding research into ICBMs, partly because these had…