All 7 Uses
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- And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.†
Chpt 1
- A Swedish engineer, Carl Gustav De Laval, had shown that by adding a divergent passage to a converging nozzle (one that necked down to a narrow throat) the expansion of the fluid (or gas) coming out of the throat would be transformed into jet kinetic energy.†
Chpt 14
- Quentin and I still weren't quite ready to work the equations for a De Laval nozzle in my book, but I got the machinists working, instead, on a new nozzle with deeper countersink cuts, hoping we might acquire at least some of the attributes of the converging-diverging design.†
Chpt 19
- If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.†
Chpt 22
- , then the gas flow in the divergent section would go supersonic, a very good thing.†
Chpt 22
- If the gases reach sonic velocity at the throat, they will go supersonic in the diverging part of the nozzle, producing maximum thrust.†
Chpt 22
- the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside.
Chpt 25 *diverging = moving apart
Definitions:
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(1)
(diverge) to move apart; or be or become different
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)