Owain...
Excellent article! There is a lot more to lift than Bernoulli.
Back to thrust produced by the intake...
Is there a good article that explains how this all works?
My understanding is that the air is compressed by the intake as the intake slows the air to subsonic speeds. The air is heated as a result of the compression. The resulting air is directed around the 'core' of the engine and put into the afterburner section where fuel is added to the hot air and ignited, producing significant thrust.
I had read that the air gets heated to a very high temperature and was led to believe that if fuel was introduced to the air (in the afterburner section), it would auto-ignite. Is that correct?
Since it's the intake that compresses the air that gets burned and produces 63% of the thrust on the Concorde, they say "the intake produces 63% of the thrust". Is that correct?
Last edited by italia458; 26th Jul 2012 at 06:20.