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Chapter 8: Variable Area Flow
This chapter contains 48 unsolved problems.
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1
Flow rate. Pressure and temperature at nozzle exit.
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2
Normal shock in nozzle, Supersonic flow at the exit plane, Minimum reservoir pressure for choking.
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3
Maximum back-pressure to choke the nozzle, Normal shock in the nozzle, Back-pressure for perfectly expanded nozzle, Supersonic flow at the nozzle exit plane.
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4
Throat and exit areas of the nozzle, Design back-pressure and temperature, Lowest back-pressure with no supersonic flow, Back-pressure with no shock waves.
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5
Maximum back-pressure for choking, Back-pressures for shock in the nozzle, Design back-pressure, Back-pressures for supersonic flow at nozzle exit.
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6
Flow rate under design conditions, Exit area of the nozzle, Design back-pressure and the temperature, Lowest back-pressure for which there is only subsonic flow, Back-pressure for normal shock wave on the exit plane, Back-pressure for no shock waves in the nozzle, Back-pressures for oblique shock waves, Back-pressures for expansion waves, Back-pressures at which a normal shock wave in divergent section.
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7
Variable area diffuser.
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8
Exit area of the nozzle, Mass flow rate at design conditions, Back-pressure when normal shock wave at exit, Back-pressures for expansion waves.
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9
Rocket nozzle thrust at sea level versus space.
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10
Throat area, exit area and exit velocity.
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11
Mass flow rate through CD passage, Mach number at the minimum area section, Velocity and pressure at the exit section.
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12
Nozzle throat area, Mach numbers before and after the shock, Nozzle area where the shock occurs, Nozzle area at exit, Density at exit of the nozzle.
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13
Mach number and the temperature at nozzle exit, Nozzle area where the normal shock wave occurs.
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14
Pressure, temperature, and Mach number at the nozzle exit.
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15
Nozzle area where the shock occurs, Mach number and pressure just before and just after the shock wave.
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16
Inlet and exit Mach numbers, Increase in entropy, Area where the shock occurs, Stagnation pressure at the exit.
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17
Exit area, Exit temperature, Exit Mach number, Area where the shock wave occurs, Pressure ratio across the shock.
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18
Pressure in the reservoir for normal shock at nozzle exit.
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19
Nozzle area at which the normal shock wave is located, Increase in entropy across the shock, Back-pressure when shock wave is located at nozzle exit.
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20
Nozzle throat area, Nozzle exit area, Temperatures upstream and downstream of the shock wave, Change in entropy through the nozzle.
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21
Mass flow rate at design conditions, Exit pressure when normal shock wave occurs in the divergent section.
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22
Mach number at exit of the nozzle.
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23
Minimum supply stagnation pressure for choking the nozzle, Mass flow rate through the nozzle, Supply stagnation pressure when normal shock wave occurs in the divergent portion.
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24
Mach numbers on each side of this shock wave, Back-pressure required to maintain the shock at a location.
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25
Throat areas of the nozzle and diffuser.
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26
Mach number, Stagnation temperature and pressure, Mass flow rate through the nozzle, Exit area, pressure, and temperature.
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27
Mass flow rate of carbon dioxide using venturimeter.
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28
Large rocket engine designed to propel a satellite launcher, Throat and exit diameters of the nozzle.
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29
Mach number, temperature, and velocity of the air at the discharge.
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30
A small jet aircraft designed to cruise at Mach 1.5, Ideal area ratio for this diffuser, Mach number to which the aircraft must be taken to swallow the normal shock wave.
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31
Fixed supersonic convergent-divergent diffuser, Mach number to swallow the shock during startup.
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32
Variable-area diffuser, Percentage reduction in diffuser throat area.
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33
Diffuser with a variable area ratio, Throat area at cruise / throat area at given Mach.
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34
Percentage increase in throat area.
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35
Wind tunnel test section with a variable area diffuser, Idea diffuser throat area / Starting throat area.
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36
Rate of air discharge from a tank.
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37
Transonic wind tunnel testing.
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38
Pressures and Mach numbers at given cross-sectional area.
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39
Moving piston, Air velocity at exit, Piston velocity, Flow rate of discharged air.
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40
Pressure in the second reservoir.
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41
Angle of flow at discharge.
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42
Meteorite punching hole in the skin of an orbiting space laboratory.
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43
Jet engine is running on a test bed.
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44
Back-pressures for constant mass flow rate.
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45
Nozzle area at which the shock wave occurs.
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46
Exit area of the nozzle, Mass flow rate at design conditions, Back-pressure when normal shock wave on the exit plane, Back-pressures when normal shock wave in the nozzle, Back-pressures when oblique shock waves will occur, Back-pressures when expansion waves will occur.
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47
Mach number and flow direction just downstream of oblique shock waves.
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48
Flow direction just downstream of expansion waves, Effect of expansion waves on thrust.
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