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The clue is in the table headings.
It shouldn't be too difficult to work it out from that.
- "Thrust" is measured in Newtons.
- "Nozzle exit area" is measured in square metres.
- "Thrust density" is measured in Newtons per square metre.
Not really. It has units of force per unit area or, equivalently, of energy per unit volume. But unless you are also given something like the density (mass per unit volume) of the exhaust stream, it cannot tell you the exhaust velocity.Ahh! So its the thrust produced per m2 of the nozzle area. Therefore that means that if you had nozzle "A" that has a surface area of 0.5m2 with a thrust of 10 Newtons and Nozzle "B" that has a surface area of 1m2 with a thrust of 10Newtons. Nozzle "A" is producing more thrust density?
Am I wrong in classifying thrust density as an efficiency of the given propulsion unit?