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| Dec 27, 2020 at 16:47 | comment | added | saolof | However, I don't know how much mentioning the cycle by name adds to the answer, as opposed to simply stating that there is a combustion step and an adiabatic expansion step (plus compression in pump-fed engines, that have more complicated cycles in practice to drive the pump machinery anyway) | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 16:37 | comment | added | saolof | The exact cycle depends on the engine used (i.e. presure feed vs tapoff vs expander cycle vs staged combustion) etc etc. However, in the most simplified case you can view it as an open Brayton cycle. Propellants get compressed, combusted, and expand adiabatically to do work | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 22:04 | comment | added | ttonon | This answer claims to view a combustor/nozzle configuration as a heat engine, yet fails to identify the cycle of the working fluid, upon which all heat engines are based. Without such identification, we cannot make too much sense out of the reasoning. Thus, a -1. | |
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| May 30, 2016 at 19:23 | history | answered | saolof | CC BY-SA 3.0 |