Rockets are usually propelled by ejecting gases from the combustion of a liquid fuel mixture. However, this solution is rather inefficient to transport spacemen to other planets. A proposed solution is to use plasma engines, the VASIMR engines. The gases ejected by these engines do not come from a combustion but are simply heated by an electric resistance at high temperature. However, such engines are very greedy in electricity, it would thus be necessary to install on the spacecrafts nuclear reactors. We consider the following characteristics: Loss of mass due to nuclear reactions : 5,05 ug/s Mass of ejected gas u : 10,1 g/s Gas ejection velocity u: 192 m/s 1 What is the "source" flow rate qs in kg/s? 2 What is the inflow qi in kg/s? 3 What is the outflow qo in kg/s?
Rockets are usually propelled by ejecting gases from the combustion of a liquid fuel mixture. However, this solution is rather inefficient to transport spacemen to other planets. A proposed solution is to use plasma engines, the VASIMR engines. The gases ejected by these engines do not come from a combustion but are simply heated by an electric resistance at high temperature. However, such engines are very greedy in electricity, it would thus be necessary to install on the spacecrafts nuclear reactors. We consider the following characteristics: Loss of mass due to nuclear reactions : 5,05 ug/s Mass of ejected gas u : 10,1 g/s Gas ejection velocity u: 192 m/s 1 What is the "source" flow rate qs in kg/s? 2 What is the inflow qi in kg/s? 3 What is the outflow qo in kg/s?
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Chapter5: Analysis Of Convection Heat Transfer
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Problem 5.32P
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