The expanding nozzle is a type of rocket nozzle that, unlike traditional designs, maintains its efficiency at a wide range of altitudes. It is a member...

Center pivot irrigation sprinkler nozzles, used in crop irrigation A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid...

The plug nozzle is a type of nozzle which includes a centerbody or plug around which the working fluid flows. Plug nozzles have applications in aircraft...

A rocket engine nozzle is a propelling nozzle (usually of the de Laval type) used in a rocket engine to expand and accelerate combustion products to high...

The bell-shaped or contour nozzle is probably the most commonly used shaped rocket engine nozzle. It has a high angle expansion section (20 to 50 degrees)...

wide range of altitudes. It belongs to the class of altitude compensating nozzle engines. Aerospike engines were proposed for many single-stage-to-orbit...

A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube which is pinched in the middle, with a rapid convergence and gradual...

Aerospike engine Plug nozzle Expanding nozzle Single expansion ramp nozzle Stepped nozzle Expansion deflection nozzle Nozzle extension Multistage rocket...

To improve on this, various exotic nozzle designs such as the plug nozzle, stepped nozzles, the expanding nozzle and the aerospike have been proposed...

propelling nozzle or exhaust ejector is a nozzle that converts the internal energy of a working gas into propulsive force; it is the nozzle, which forms...

control. Nominally, the line of action of the thrust vector of a rocket nozzle passes through the vehicle's centre of mass, generating zero net torque...

scenarios. To ensure efficiency at all altitudes a sort of moving, expanding nozzle would be used. First at low altitude, air-breathing flight the bell...

stepped nozzle (or dual-bell nozzle) is a de Laval rocket nozzle which has altitude compensating properties. The characteristic of this kind of nozzle is that...

bell nozzles while expanding before being turned toward the exit. This allows for shorter nozzles than the standard design while maintaining nozzle expansion...

further expanded through an expanding nozzle. A slight variation on the shrouded rocket, the ducted rocket adds only a convergent-divergent nozzle. This...

pressure air through a turbine and a nozzle. The compressor is powered by the turbine, which extracts energy from the expanding gas passing through it. The engine...

the engine exhaust pressure at the primary nozzle exit was greater than ambient so tended to over-expand to lower than ambient in the shroud causing...

a 250,000 lbf engine called the XLR-129, which used a two-position expanding nozzle to provide increased efficiency over a wide range of altitudes. In...

necessary phase change, the expander cycle is thrust limited by the square–cube law. When a bell-shaped nozzle is scaled, the nozzle surface area with which...

A nozzle extension is an extension of the nozzle of a reaction/rocket engine. The application of nozzle extensions improves the efficiency of rocket engines...

combustion chamber and then allowed to expand through the turbine. The turbine exhaust is then expanded in the propelling nozzle where it is accelerated to high...

A magnetic nozzle is a convergent-divergent magnetic field that guides, expands and accelerates a plasma jet into vacuum for the purpose of space propulsion...

Traditional nozzles are axially symmetric, and therefore surround the expanding gas. Linear nozzles are not axially symmetric, but consist of a 2D configuration...

entering the core nozzle (lower exhaust velocity), and fan-produced higher pressure and temperature bypass-air entering the fan nozzle. The amount of energy...

intake ramp bleed slot. The expanding flow in the diverging section caused a forward thrust force on the exhaust nozzle: a 29% contribution to the overall...

passes through a constriction (such as the throat of a convergent-divergent nozzle or a valve in a pipe) into a lower pressure environment the fluid velocity...

to various expanding nozzle designs to address this. M-1 development continued through this period, although as the Apollo program expanded, NASA started...

boundary of an object immersed in the medium, or of a channel such as a nozzle, diffuser or wind tunnel channelling the medium. As the Mach number is defined...

In fluid mechanics, isentropic nozzle flow describes the movement of a fluid through a narrow opening without an increase in entropy (an isentropic process)...

injection nozzle. There are two categories of nitrous systems: dry & wet with four main delivery methods of nitrous systems: single nozzle, direct port...