Carefully engineered
injector pintle shape also helps.
Not exact matches
An example of what rocketeers call a
pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel
injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller
injector holes used in other rocket engines.
As a side note, there are
injector manufacturers that claim to provide the ability to vary fuel flow rate through use of multiple pintles (Injector Dynamics springs t
injector manufacturers that claim to provide the ability to vary fuel flow rate through use of multiple
pintles (
Injector Dynamics springs t
Injector Dynamics springs to mind).
A good compromise might be a small -
pintle small - orifice
injector for idle, coupled with another
injector: my proverbial «firehose» for hole shots.
What is unusual is how the
pintle is moved in a GDI
injector.
Blue top engine (smaller main journals, smaller piston pins, non-reinforced block,
pintle - style
injectors),