A rocket engine nozzle is a propelling nozzle (usually of the de Laval type) used in a rocket engine to expand and accelerate the combustion gases produced by burning propellants so that the exhaust gases exit the nozzle at hypersonic velocities.
Read more about Rocket Engine Nozzle: History, Atmospheric Use, Vacuum Use, One Dimensional Analysis of Gas Flow in Rocket Engine Nozzles, Specific Impulse, Aerostatic Back-pressure and Optimum Expansion, Optimum Shape, Advanced Designs, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words rocket and/or engine:
“Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow.”
—Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933)
“The will is never free—it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car—it can’t steer.”
—Joyce Cary (1888–1957)