Reaction Engines and Thermodynamic Processes
Reaction Engines and Thermodynamic Processes Reaction Engines: A fam ily of engines uses the principle of Newton's third law to create a force called thrust to move vehicles. These engines are called reaction engines because the force these engines generate is a reaction to t he expelling of hot gasses in the opposite direction. This family of engines includes engines such as; 1. Ram jet 2. Pulse jet 3. Gas Turbine Jet engine 4. Rocket engine Before understanding the Gas turbine Engine it is important to understand or recall the Thermodynamic processes. So here we will first briefly study the thermodynamic processes. Thermodynamic Processes: When a system undergoes change from one state to final state due change in properties like temperature, pressure, volume etc, the system is said to have undergone thermodynamic process. Various types of thermodynamic processes are: isothermal process, adiabatic process, isochoric process, isobaric process and reversibl...