Whittle was born in Coventry in the south of England. In the First World War, whittle witnessed the air combat of fighter planes when he was a child, so he became interested in air combat. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, whittle was admitted to the Royal Air Force Trainee School and studied at the Royal Air Force Academy in Cranwill after graduation.
During school, he found that the piston engine driving the propeller could not meet the needs of high-altitude and high-speed flight of the aircraft, and put forward the working principle of a new propulsion system turbojet engine in his graduation thesis: firstly, air was sucked in, then compressed by a double-sided centrifugal compressor, and then injected into a single-tube combustion chamber for combustion; The high-pressure gas after combustion drives the turbine to drive the compressor, and at the same time, it is ejected from the tail nozzle at high speed, thus generating thrust to propel the aircraft. He deduced the basic equation of engine thermodynamics and proposed that the cruising altitude of the aircraft could reach 35,000 meters.
Jet engine is a kind of heat engine or engine that does work by accelerating and discharging high-speed fluid. It can output both thrust and shaft power. Most jet engines rely on Newton's third law, but there are some exceptions. Common jet engines include turbofan engine, turbojet engine, rocket engine, ramjet engine and pulse compression jet engine.
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Jet engine application
Jet engines can be used in any aerospace vehicle, and air-breathing engines can be used in airplanes, cruise missiles and aerospace aircraft. In addition, it can also be used in hovercraft and ground effect aircraft. Rocket engines are used in fireworks, launch vehicles, military rockets, various missiles and spacecraft.
Sometimes jet engines are also used in special vehicles. These cars can have extremely high speeds, and some can even exceed the speed of sound. Some enthusiasts will also install jet engines on family cars, skateboards and even bicycles. The United States has developed jet skis for use in the Arctic. Some jet engines will be transformed into gas turbines for power generation and heating. Most modified engines use natural gas.
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