characteristic chamber length
characteristic chamber length
[‚kar·ik·tə′ris·tik ′chām·bər ‚leŋkth] (aerospace engineering)
The length of a straight, cylindrical tube having the same volume as that of the chamber of a rocket engine if the chamber had no converging section.
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