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"JohnO" wrote in message ps.com... When designing rotor systems, you have to keep the tip speed subsonic to prevent all sorts of problems and losses that would otherwise occur at the sound barrier, right? When props (or rotors I would suppose) exceed the sound barrier at about 1100 fps tip speed, they have a strong tendancy to self distruct. I assume due to acoustic vibrations at the supersonic tip. I do know they get very, very loud. What about large turbofan engines such as on modern airliners? The fan tips must be travelling at many orders of magnitude faster than the speed of sound? Why are they not subject to the same limitation? I think it is the ducting. It greatly limits (or directs) the acoustic vibrations or waves from the tips. In a jet engine, the blades usually run very close to the duct, even touching occasionally in some cases. And you are correct, they often run 2 or 3 times the speed of sound. Just wondering. |
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