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Old 18th Sep 2008, 04:01
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Brian Abraham
 
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Imagine that you had an engine which offered constant thrust completely independent of speed or altitude. Such engines exist. Namely rockets.
From the formula you will see that a rockets thrust in a vacuum (space) will be greater than at sea level. As a rocket climbs the ambient pressure progressively reduces until you reach space where it becomes effectively zero (space is not a perfect vacuum).

Gross thrust = Fn = mVe+ Ae(Pe - Pamb)

where:

m = propellant flow (kg/s or lb/s)

Ve = jet velocity at nozzle exit plane (m/s or s)

Ae = flow area at nozzle exit plane (m2 or ft2)

Pe = static pressure at nozzle exit plane (Pa or lb/ft2)

Pamb = ambient (or atmospheric) pressure (Pa or lb/ft2)

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