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How does a

jet engine work?

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The fan that is the easily visible blade wheel on the front side The air introduced into the core engine is compressed by many The air massively compressed by the compressor stages and The hot gases from the combustor are conveyed through a series
draws a huge volume of air into the engine and accelerates it. rapidly rotating discs with blades, heats up and decelerates. In the heated up is conveyed into the combustor, where it is mixed of turbine stages. Each one of them gains energy from the steady
The biggest Rolls-Royce engines have a fan diameter of about course of passing through several compressor stages, it is with the kerosene and burned. The combustion gases generated flow of gas, rather like a windmill. This energy is primarily used to
3 metres and can thus shift up to 1.2 tonnes of air per second. compressed to a fiftieth of its normal volume. during this process expand explosively in the direction of the drive the fan and compressor via shafts. The blades have to be
Only approximately one-tenth of this is conveyed into the core If one were to compress the air from a phone box into a turbine. While this is going on temperatures of up to 2,300C are extensively cooled to prevent them melting. The hot air expands
engine that consists of compressor, combustor and turbine. microwave oven, it would have the same pressure. generated in the combustor equivalent to half the temperature as it passes through the turbine stages, cools down and then
Nine-tenths is conveyed around the core engine directly to the of the suns surface. If the structure were not continuously leaves the jet nozzle at the back of the engine, thereby generating
jet nozzle and constitutes a bypass flow. This outer airflow aerated by a sophisticated system of laser-drilled cooling holes additional thrust. While this is going on the hot air from the core
provides about three-quarters of the total forward thrust of the introducing air from the compressor, it would melt. For protective engine is mixed with the cold bypass flow around it. It is this
engine. purposes the combustor has several layers of ceramic insulating combination that makes todays modern engines so quiet and
coatings which are the thickness of just two sheets of paper, yet efficient.
are able to reduce the temperature loading by 300C.

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An engine could move the air contained in a The high-pressure compressor of a Rolls-Royce Because the air flows so rapidly out of the The turbine blades derive a huge amount of energy
squash court in less than a second. In order to be Trent engine with its hundreds of blades rotate compressor, special tricks are required to from the exhaust flow. In this way every one of the
as light as possible, the fan blades of the biggest at a speed of about 10,000 rpm. By the end of maintain the combustion it is easier to ignite 66 high-pressure turbine blades of a Trent 1000
Rolls-Royce engines are hollow inside. the compressor the air has attained a a match in a storm. engine generates power equivalent to a Formula
temperature of almost 700C. One racing car. The accelerated air reaches a speed
of almost 1.500 km/h at the jet nozzle.

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