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Driving Nozzle Performance

(Below are important performance values for our engine. We want to design the geometry of our engine to optimize these values).


Isp - specific impulse

Specific impulse is a quantity effectively measuring the efficiency of an engine through the relation of thrust and mass flow rate; from the equation, this efficiency may be viewed as the impulse obtained per unit mass of propellant. 

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