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How exactly does an afterburner increase the exhaust exit velocity?
The afterburner increases thrust primarily by accelerating the exhaust gas to a higher velocity. While the mass of the fuel added to the exhaust does contribute to an increase in thrust, this effect is small compared to the increase in exhaust velocity.
How hot is an afterburner?
Since the temperature of an afterburner can reach 1700 deg. C, the flame is usually concentrated around the jet pipe axis, allowing a portion of the discharge gas to flow along the wall of the jet pipe and therefore maintain a safe wall temperature.
Is MSI Afterburner safe?
To be clear, the legitimate Afterburner tool on MSI’s actual website has not been compromised in any way, and “is safe to use.” It’s a nifty utility, too—not only can you overclock your graphics card with Afterburner, but you can also use it to potentially lower your graphics card temperature by tweaking your GPU fan …
Is MSI Afterburner a virus?
MSI has no relation with this website or the aforementioned domain.” According to MSI, the Afterburner software hosted on that particular domain could contain a variety of malware, including a trojan virus and/or a keylogger.
Where does the orange color come from in an afterburner?
EDIT: On closer inspection, the orange color seems to be solely coming from the glowing afterburner inner wall, as opposed to the exhaust, although the exhaust is glowing also. This seems to confirm my guess that Western afterburners run hotter. EDIT: OK, I’ve spoken to some guys from one of the ex-soviet design bureaus.
Which is hotter a blue flame or an orange flame?
It full burner the mixture is quite rich, resulting in a orange colored flame. Lower stages of afterburner are probably much closer to peak stoichiometric mixture. Incidentally these blue colored flames are indicative of a much hotter exhaust gas temperature than an orange colored exhaust.
What makes a Sukhoi afterburner a blue color?
One of them said the blue color is the result of cold afterburner and Sukhoi afterburner design, the fuel being dumped at acute angles into the center of the cylinder using a few big injectors. It all depends. I don’t think there’s a distinctive color between the two.
Which is hotter a Western or Eastern afterburner?
Western afterburners are a lot hotter than Eastern afterburners, to the point that the blackbody radiation color, which is dependent on temperature, dominates the radical color, which is independent of temperature. This seems to be the logical conjecture, given that the Russians have always been pretty poor on metallurgy.