Control systems

Control systems

Of or relating to systems used in the closed area of a spacecraft to permit life to be sustained, so that occupants are provided with a suitably controlled atmosphere in which to live and work.

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Control systems

One with an impeller (rotor), stator, and compressor manifold. The rotor revolves at high speed drawing air into the blades. Centrifugal force accelerates the air, and it moves through the stator and ...

centrifugal twisting movement

Aerospace; Control systems

Force that tends to streamline rotating blades with the plane of rotation.

choked nozzle

Aerospace; Control systems

A nozzle whose flow rate has reached the speed of sound.

chord line

Aerospace; Control systems

Imaginary line drawn between the leading and trailing edges of an airfoil.

combustion

Aerospace; Control systems

Process of burning the fuel-air mixture in a gas turbine engine.

combustion chamber

Aerospace; Control systems

Part of a turbine engine in which the propulsive power is developed by combustion of the injected fuel and the expansive force of the resultinggases.

combustion chamber liner

Aerospace; Control systems

Engine part usually constructed of welded high-nickel steel, subjected to flame of extremely high temperature. It is behind the compressor and receives the compressed air which is mixed with fuel and ...