The Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 is a turbojet engine used in the Concorde supersonic airliner. Similar to other jet engines, the thrust coefficient is not a commonly used parameter for assessing the performance of turbojet engines. Instead, metrics such as thrust, specific fuel consumption, and other engine-specific parameters are more frequently employed.
The thrust coefficient is often associated with propellers, turbines, and rocket engines, where thrust is a primary measure of performance. However, if you have specific data for the Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engine and wish to calculate a thrust coefficient for a particular analysis, you would typically need information such as the actual thrust produced by the engine, the air density, and the airspeed.
The thrust coefficient is defined as the ratio of the thrust force produced by the propulsion system to the dynamic pressure of the incoming air. Mathematically, it is expressed as:
where,
where:
- is the thrust coefficient,
- is the thrust force,
- is the air density,
- is the airspeed,
- is the reference area.