Thermal Efficiency of a Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon Engine Calculator

The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,600 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976.

The thermal efficiency is expressed mathematically as:

where:

  •  is the thermal efficiency,
  •  is the thrust produced by the engine,
  •  is the jet velocity,
  • f is the mass flow rate of fuel,
  •  is the specific enthalpy of the fuel.

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