engine design - How are rocket nozzles made? - Space …
Jun 18, 2017 · How are rocket nozzles made?? Is it a huge chunk of metal that they cut down or is it a "pipe" that they reshape? Or something else??
Rocket Nozzle Shape and Length - Space Exploration Stack …
Jul 21, 2024 · The purpose of a rocket nozzle is to turn the hot, high pressure, quasi-stationary gases in the combustion chamber into a fast flowing gas moving directly away from the rocket.
Why do rocket nozzles flare? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
Nov 2, 2016 · Why do rocket nozzles open wider at the end than, let's say, get narrower? Let me explain: A jet engine works by having this amazing thing called a combustion chamber. The …
How hot do rocket engine nozzles get? - Space Exploration Stack …
Oct 27, 2020 · 16 What temperatures are encountered by the nozzles of rocket engines like those in SpaceX's Merlin series? Radiative or regenerative cooling, atmosphere or vacuum. There's …
engine design - What is the thickness of a rocket nozzle? - Space ...
Apr 12, 2020 · For a university project, I'm working on optimisation of a Falcon-9-like launch vehicle, and one element of that is varying expansion ratios of the engines. This will impact on …
Contracting rocket engine nozzles - Space Exploration Stack …
Sep 16, 2020 · The efficiency of rocket engine nozzles depends greatly on their expansion ratio an how well the ambient pressure matches the rocket nozzles exit pressure. An optimal …
Why is the expansion ratio of the nozzle of the 2nd stage larger …
Jul 29, 2023 · If the nozzle of the 1st is in vacuum conditions, then the flow of gas out of the rocket engine nozzle’s exhaust plume would expand far beyond the width of the nozzle in the …
Calculating rocket nozzle throat area - Space Exploration Stack …
Sep 4, 2021 · Remember, the basic rocket thrust force equation is mass flow rate time exhaust velocity. Just for completeness, eqs (7), (8) and (11) can be combined to show flow rate, …
Where does the thrust act in a rocket engine and how is it …
A rocket engine is basically a device that generates a high pressure inside the chamber and the pressure difference creates a force. A nozzle helps in effectively accelerating the flow and …
How is chamber pressure determined for rocket engines?
A typical liquid rocket engine features deflagrative combustion, that is to say that there is negligible pressure gain produced by the combustion. Instead, all the pressure in the chamber …