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Article #288Simple? Gas dynamics question
From: Ron Graham
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:21
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:21
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I have a question about gas dynamics that people in that area may find simple. I hope. I need an answer for a "back-of-the-envelope" calculation, which I must try to solve as quickly as possible, so while I always appreciate being referred to textbooks, I will not be able to use them in this case. I therefore ask for answers of another sort. I have a nozzle in which gases escape at known pressure and velocity. It's the jet of a spacecraft, so the gases escape into a vacuum. I want a first approximation of the dynamic pressure of the escaped gases at a known distance downstream of the nozzle, along the primary line of action of the jet. In other words, given p_0 and v_0, what's p_x if x is known and along a straight line and the medium is a vacuum? Assume x is short enough that each molecule of gas is still moving in a straight line, and that the profile of the escaping gases is conical. Thanks in advance, RG Who became an engineer thinking "free-body diagrams" might be interesting.
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