How a de Laval (convergent-divergent) nozzle works (Image: Wikipedia) Professor French and his students wanted to develop a demonstration of how a de Laval nozzle (also called a convergent ...

Pictured above are conventional bell-shaped rocket nozzles—also known as a convergent-divergent nozzles—on the space shuttle Discovery.Inherent in its name, the nozzle converges down to a ...

Physical Review Letters – Laboratory Observation of a Plasma-Flow-State Transition from Diverging to Stretching a Magnetic Nozzle. ABSTRACT An axial magnetic field induced by a plasma flow in a ...

The resultant high energy exhaust is then funneled through a converging or diverging nozzle. This velocity, coupled with the right mass properties of the propellant, provides the power, or energy ...

Recently, a group of students at Purdue University used a simple device to make a ping-pong ball break the speed of sound. But that’s not the coolest part. The device they used, called a de ...

The nozzles were being “choked” by a shock wave sitting in the nozzle throat. Rather than try to get around, or get rid of, the shock, engineers employed an aerodynamics principle that was ...

As air enters the so-called convergent-divergent or de Laval nozzle, it accelerates as it is compressed, reaching supersonic speeds as the nozzle expands. “I thought, okay, I’m going to ...

BENGALURU: In what it describes as a significant advancement, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) Tuesday said it has successfully developed a lightweight Carbon-Carbon (C-C) nozzle for ...