Glossary

Common terms used across the workbench.

Short definitions for product pages, tutorials, reports, and review conversations.

c*

Characteristic velocity, a chamber-performance quantity relating chamber pressure, throat area, and mass flow.

Cf

Thrust coefficient, relating thrust to chamber pressure and throat area.

O/F ratio

Oxidizer-to-fuel mass ratio used for thermochemistry and injector-flow closure.

Expansion ratio

Nozzle exit area divided by throat area.

Injector pressure drop

Differential pressure across injector orifices; a major driver of upstream feed pressure.

Stale result

A solved output that no longer matches current inputs and should be re-solved or explicitly treated as stale before export.