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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…
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…
Rocket Science 101: Operating Principles
We covered the history of rocketry over the last 2000 years. By means of…
