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Old 11th Feb 2005, 07:14
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enicalyth
 
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gas exit velocity

The exit velocity "v" of gas from a nozzle, or engine core, or fan is determined by adiabatic effficiency (I'll call it "effy"); the specific heat ratio k (usually called gamma), Gas Constant R, stage temperature T and the pressure ratio across the stage Pr.

Thus u = sqrt[2*"effy"*(k/k-1)RT[1-(Pr)^(k-1)/k].

A nice treatise is found in Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion by Hill & Peterson ISBN 0201 146592 pp184-185 mainly but they do go through the maths for all stages.

Also http://www.anirudh.net/seminar/ge90.pdf is handy for B777 people.

The mixing of fan and core streams mucks these undergrad figures about a bit by 1 or 2%
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