JoshTheEngineer | Explained: Area-Mach Number Relation [CPG] @JoshTheEngineer | Uploaded October 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Can we approximate the exit Mach number of a rocket nozzle knowing only the area ratio? With a few assumptions, we certainly can! In fact, if we know how the area changes along a nozzle from the throat to the exit, we can calculate how the Mach number varies throughout the entire nozzle.
===== NOTES =====
► I'll make sure to never use my orange marker again
► If you download my Method of Characteristics MATLAB code from my GitHub (link below), you can see that the results of both match very closely!
===== HOW TO SOLVE AREA-MACH NUMBER RELATION =====
joshtheengineer.com/2016/11/16/solving-the-area-mach-number-relation
===== ROCKET NOZZLE - METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS =====
github.com/jte0419/Rocket_Nozzle_Design
===== RELEVANT VIDEOS =====
Area-Mach Number Differential Form
goo.gl/tDzBtM
Sonic State
goo.gl/j6yCxD
Stagnation-to-Static Relations
goo.gl/r5JZSQ
Normal Shock Relations
goo.gl/E5Lwac
===== REFERENCES =====
► Notes by Matt MacLean
► Modern Compressible Flow, Anderson
► Elements of Gasdynamics, Liepmann and Roshko
► Gas Dynamics, Zucrow and Hoffman
===== THUMBNAIL IMAGE =====
By NASA (mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2388) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Can we approximate the exit Mach number of a rocket nozzle knowing only the area ratio? With a few assumptions, we certainly can! In fact, if we know how the area changes along a nozzle from the throat to the exit, we can calculate how the Mach number varies throughout the entire nozzle.
===== NOTES =====
► I'll make sure to never use my orange marker again
► If you download my Method of Characteristics MATLAB code from my GitHub (link below), you can see that the results of both match very closely!
===== HOW TO SOLVE AREA-MACH NUMBER RELATION =====
joshtheengineer.com/2016/11/16/solving-the-area-mach-number-relation
===== ROCKET NOZZLE - METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS =====
github.com/jte0419/Rocket_Nozzle_Design
===== RELEVANT VIDEOS =====
Area-Mach Number Differential Form
goo.gl/tDzBtM
Sonic State
goo.gl/j6yCxD
Stagnation-to-Static Relations
goo.gl/r5JZSQ
Normal Shock Relations
goo.gl/E5Lwac
===== REFERENCES =====
► Notes by Matt MacLean
► Modern Compressible Flow, Anderson
► Elements of Gasdynamics, Liepmann and Roshko
► Gas Dynamics, Zucrow and Hoffman
===== THUMBNAIL IMAGE =====
By NASA (mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2388) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons