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How does a fan in a turbofan engine suck air in?
First of all a couple of corrections:
The turbofan that you see in the video is a "geared turbofan". In this kind of engines the fan is not directly connected to the same shaft of the ...
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How does a fan in a turbofan engine suck air in?
You can watch this same effect with a simple desk or ceiling fan.
As a fan blade rotates, air "bunches up" in front of it, and bunched up (high pressure) air is higher pressure than other ...
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How does a fan in a turbofan engine suck air in?
Whenever air is pushed, there is higher pressure created in the direction of the push. And this is what's happening at the fan and at propellers: they push air backwards.
Eventually, the air will be ...
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How does a fan in a turbofan engine suck air in?
This is a very common source of confusion. The cause is that you are looking at the pressure distribution on the blade surface in isolation; and not the associated fluid velocities that are ...
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