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A pump curve out of the momentum theorem

A pump curve out of the momentum theorem
A pump curve out of the momentum theorem. The pressure an ejector delivers, against how much it is entraining, at a fixed nozzle. It has the shape of every pump characteristic ever measured — a shut-off pressure with no flow, falling to no pressure at free delivery — and it was obtained from a momentum balance on a tube with nothing in it. The shut-off value here is 36.0 kPa and the machine at its best power runs at 4.56 times its own motive flow.

The pressure an ejector delivers, against how much it is entraining, at a fixed nozzle. It has the shape of every pump characteristic ever measured — a shut-off pressure with no flow, falling to no pressure at free delivery — and it was obtained from a momentum balance on a tube with nothing in it. The shut-off value here is 36.0 kPa and the machine at its best power runs at 4.56 times its own motive flow.

4 essays call ejector-map. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing ejector-map changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

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What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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