specific thrust in a sentence
Examples
- Turbofan exhaust gases induce additional air into the ejector via an auxiliary air intake, thereby reducing the specific thrust / mean jet velocity of the final exhaust.
- If, however, the afterburner is to be hardly used, a low specific thrust ( low fan pressure ratio / high bypass ratio ) cycle will be favored.
- At a fixed total applied fuel : air ratio, the total fuel flow for a given fan airflow will be the same, regardless of the dry specific thrust of the engine.
- It's linked to from a wikified table in that article, as an example of a propulsion type which would have very low specific thrust designed to be applied over decades.
- When lit, prodigious amounts of fuel are burnt in the afterburner, raising the temperature of exhaust gases by a significant degree, resulting in a higher exhaust velocity / engine specific thrust.
- An SST VCE would have to increase the engine airflow substantially at take-off, to reduce the jet velocity at a given thrust ( i . e . a lower specific thrust)
- A low ( dry ) specific thrust engine has a low tailpipe temperature, which means that the temperature rise across the afterburner can be high, giving a good thrust boost in afterburning.
- The total fuel flow ( main combustor plus afterburner ) is fixed by the temperature rise from air intake to nozzle and, for a given airflow, changes little with dry specific thrust.
- Ivchenko Lotarev chose a very low specific thrust ( net thrust / airflow ) cycle for the DV-2, so a single stage fan is sufficient to develop the desired fan pressure ratio.
- Military turbofans, however, have a relatively high specific thrust, to maximize the thrust for a given frontal area, jet noise being of less concern in military uses relative to civil uses.