supersonic flow
101Nozzle — Rocket nozzle. Water nozzle. A nozzle is a device design …
102airplane — /air playn /, n. 1. a heavier than air aircraft kept aloft by the upward thrust exerted by the passing air on its fixed wings and driven by propellers, jet propulsion, etc. 2. any similar heavier than air aircraft, as a glider or helicopter. Also …
103Turbofan — [ CFM56 3 turbofan, lower half, side view.] A turbofan is a type of jet engine, similar to a turbojet. It essentially consists of a ducted fan with a smaller diameter turbojet engine mounted behind it that powers the fan. Part of the airstream… …
104Turbojet — Turbojets are the oldest kind of general purpose jet engines. Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently during the late 1930s, although credit for the first turbojet is… …
105Theodore von Kármán — Infobox Scientist name = box width = image width =150px caption = Von Karman at the Caltech JPL birth date = birth date|1881|05|11 birth place = death date = death date and age|1963|05|06|1881|05|11 death place = residence = citizenship =… …
106aerospace industry — Introduction assemblage of manufacturing concerns that deal with vehicular flight within and beyond the Earth s atmosphere. (The term aerospace is derived from the words aeronautics and spaceflight.) The aerospace industry is engaged in the …
107Afterburner — For other uses of afterburner, see Afterburner (disambiguation). Infobox Aviation name= Afterburner caption= A U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet being launched from the catapult on full afterburnerAn afterburner (or reheat) is an additional component added …
108Polar wind — is the permanent outflow of ionization from the polar regions of the magnetosphere. [http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/browse?s=p p=43 AMS Glossary] ] Ionospheric Plasma SourceThe ‘ground state’ of the ionosphere consists of the baseline …
109Variable Cycle Engine — In a Variable Cycle Engine (VCE) the engine cycle is deliberately modified from that which would occur under normal circumstances.The next generation of Supersonic transport (SST) may require some form of VCE. SST engines require a high Specific… …
110Jet engine performance — This article describes how jet engine performance is estimated during the design phase. Similar techniques are used once the engine has been built and is being tested, except the performance of individual components, rather than being assumed, is …
