Measures of Engine Performance
Engine types vary greatly in a number of different ways:
- energy efficiency
- fuel/propellant consumption (brake specific fuel consumption for shaft engines, thrust specific fuel consumption for jet engines)
- power-to-weight ratio
- thrust to weight ratio
- Torque curves (for shaft engines) thrust lapse (jet engines)
- Compression ratio for piston engines, overall pressure ratio for jet engines and gas turbines
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