[AR] Re: starship pad flame trench?
- From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:32:59 -0400
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Ben Brockert wrote:
Though you don't define "significant percentage", I don't think the
math is as simple as you imply by quoting the chamber pressure.
Yeah, it's chamber _temperature_ rather than pressure that gets
approximately re-achieved when rocket exhaust hits a surface and
stagnates. (In vacuum, that is, or in air but close enough that there
hasn't been significant mixing yet.)
Pressure depends on how much it's spread out.
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