How Jet Engines Work
Ғылым және технология
An inside look at how jet engines work. Most modern jet propelled airplanes use a turbofan design, where incoming air is divided between a large fan and the jet engine core, where combustion happens.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:21 The Core
0:36 Compressor
1:18 Combustor
2:04 Turbine
2:34 Exhaust Cone
2:44 Fan
3:54 Low Bypass Engine
4:13 Afterburner
4:49 Comparison
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Aeronautical engineer here. This is the best reference video on jets I have ever seen. And I'm pretty sure I've watched most of them haha. Great work my friend.
@twizasichilima7392
3 жыл бұрын
Hey I want to become an aeronautical Engineering can I email you for advice?
@twizasichilima7392
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know how I can get in touch with you from this platform
@yagoovirus2751
3 жыл бұрын
Im dreaming of becoming a pilot and I wanna start with aeronautical engineering, do you think it's harder than other engineerings
@k.bobcat7567
3 жыл бұрын
@@yagoovirus2751 why do you want to studt aeronautical engineer if you want to be a pilot?
@reeceengineering3560
3 жыл бұрын
@Index, would you be willing to review a Fan Blade design I created? Some feedback on it & the math I used would be nice
THis is one of the best animations i have ever seen. the easiest visualization of a pretty complex thing.
@megrai4137
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you
@adityakun9131
3 жыл бұрын
I agree,. But it's not just a pretty complex thing, it's a hugggggee complex thing that making my brain burning since past 2 years😬
@kyawkyawmyo5183
2 жыл бұрын
I am sometime so bad memory withtwo time,one Ipassed tuned big car the other I go back to stayway not how
@antoine1407
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree especially for combustion part
@Non_Consistent_Potato
2 жыл бұрын
It is a deflating balloon that keeps getting more air than its using somehow
Great job. I am a commercial pilot, for 13 years, always wished something like this existed. If you dont mind, Id like to show this to all my cadets, who had a very blurry idea of how a Turbo Fan really works
@shafiqfahmi7252
2 жыл бұрын
What’s drove the fan to start spinning ?As I understand, the compressor needs the fan to move spin first to compress the air for combustion
@kailoo3256
2 жыл бұрын
@@shafiqfahmi7252 Auxilary power unit provides bleed air to start engines
@samuelwatson4857
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent vid. Im still fuzzy on two things. 1) Does bypass air provide thrust or just surround the high pressure exhaust for noise reduction; and 2) Do turboprop fans generate thrust as they turn or is the sole function to pull air through to the compressors and create bypass? If they do generate thrust what percent of the overall thrust is fan and what percent is high pressure exhaust?
@tonybalogna123
2 жыл бұрын
@@samuelwatson4857 Finishing up my aerospace engineering degree this year so I feel somewhat qualified to answer. 1: Bypass air does provide thrust! Basically you can think of thrust as the change in the momentum of the air that goes through the engine; as you may know momentum is simply mass times velocity. The reason high bypass ratios (the ratio of bypass air to core air) are more efficient is because rather than accelerating a small amount of air to very high velocities, like in a turbojet, they accelerate a large amount of air to relatively lower velocities. The reason this is more efficient is that it takes much more energy to accelerate air to a very high velocity. A good way to see this is to consider the relationship between momentum and kinetic energy. Momentum is mass times velocity, whereas kinetic energy is 1/2 mass times velocity^2, so for the same momentum, the energy required increases proportionally to velocity. This can also be seen in the equations for Specific Thrust (the ratio of thrust to the mass flow rate of air consumed by the jet) and in the equation for Specific Fuel Consumption (the ratio of the mass flow rate of fuel to thrust). In a turbojet, you get a higher Specific Thrust (Tsp), and a lower Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC). Whereas in a turbofan, you get the opposite. These quantities (Tsp and SFC) are inversely proportional to one another. So the answer to your question is that yes, the bypass air does create thrust, just like a propeller does. And it does it more (fuel) efficiently than a turbojet, though this comes with trade offs such as greater engine complexity, greater size, and as I mentioned, worse Tsp, which corresponds to worse thrust to weight ratios. 2: I assume you are asking about a turbofan in this question, rather than a turboprop. In modern high bypass turbofan engines, the vast majority of thrust is produced by the bypass air that is accelerated by the fan. In fact, the optimum bypass ratio (most fuel efficient) occurs when the bypass air exit velocity = the core air exit velocity. As you can see, with a high bypass ratio, somewhere around 8-9, this means that 8 to 9 times as much air is going through the fan than is going through the core, and with the same exit velocities, you can see that the vast majority of momentum change in the air is being done by the fan. So in modern high bypass ratio turbofans, upwards of 90% of the thrust comes from the fan, rather than the core. Sorry for this essay of a response but I hope it's helpful!
@fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537
2 жыл бұрын
@@tonybalogna123 very good answer. To answer the other part of the question, turbofans do reduce jet noise, but the fan produces its own noise, overall noise is reduced however.
can you imagine, "ah yes, so you set the air on fire and it go... but what if we set the air on fire twice, maybe it go twice?"
@hongthainguyen5334
3 жыл бұрын
_Afterburner explained in one sentence_
@MrPicklekvGygA
3 жыл бұрын
It's not even just setting the air on fire twice, more like setting the fire on fire again.
@mattcroft
2 жыл бұрын
what if we set the fire... on fire
@coltonbates629
2 жыл бұрын
Idea: what if we set all of the air in the world (except for where the thing is) on fire? Then the object would be everywhere at once
@namaanda5349
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know how afterburner works before I saw this comment section. THANKS!
This video makes me so sad because I just found it, and then discovered you only have 3 videos on your channel. My gosh your content is beyond exceptional! I hope you are able to see how talented you are...making the complex simple and clear is so amazing, and you do this better than anyone I’ve seen on KZread. Thank you for these amazing videos and now I just have to wait and hope hope hope (“hope” repeated intentionally) for more!
@aadnansadiq
4 жыл бұрын
@animagraffs please make some videos. We know its not easy to make such videos, but we need your detailed explanations for complex stuff.
@NickolasHunter
3 жыл бұрын
Check out his website in the description!
@organizedchaosmark
Жыл бұрын
What a great comment and compliment! I wholeheartedly agree. This is now one of my favorite educational channels ever on KZread!
Excellent visualization and presentation! Very easy to understand. Keep up the great work and you’ll be well on your way to a million subs!
@tomfoulds2604
3 жыл бұрын
it's been 10 months and he's still at 22.5k. you have cursed him
@mattrittman
3 жыл бұрын
Tom Foulds ahhhh! I mean this is the kind of stuff people like. Not sure why it’s not hitting the KZread algorithm :(
@ytsub7
3 жыл бұрын
I just noticed he was under 1M. 🤯
@retna1x363
3 жыл бұрын
@@ytsub7 he doesnt upload
@retna1x363
3 жыл бұрын
@@mattrittman he doesnt upload ):
Hey Jake, this was a very well-done video. Great animation and explanation. Keep it up!
@trashmammal2678
2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Love your videos!
@planetrob555
2 жыл бұрын
The ending was terrible. It just stopped abruptly.
@trashmammal2678
Жыл бұрын
Hey! Younger self!
This was by far the clearest, easiest to understand, and best animated explanation I've seen yet. Thank you!!!
I'm a commercial pilot. Many are commending the quality of this animation along with your presentation. I agree with them! Granted, it takes a lot of time making those animations as well as the research into it. The quality though is worth it and I wonder why did you stop making videos for KZread? Please return, and as an incentive, I've subscribed to your channel.
@angelavalencia8294
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah back one future hero
This was really helpful, I’m not sure why but understanding how ICE and TJ engines work is just so satisfying
I just discovered your videos and all I have to say is PLEASE MAKE MORE! You explain this so simply yet so thoroughly that it makes total sense. I could never understand fully how a jet engine worked but this explained it so well.
I currently work on CFM56 aircraft engine, your animations really help me fully visualize how they work. Thanks.
That was the most badass turbine engine graphic and explanation i have ever seen.
The best visualization I've seen about turbo fan engines. Awesome!
Your ability to animate these incredibly complex concepts and explain them in a succinct way for a general audience is simply unbelievable. I really hope that you receive the amount of views and followers that you deserve. Just incredible work all around… thank you so much for this free knowledge.
As a A&P rated mechanic I have to say this is the best explanation/video I’ve seen and the only thing that could make it easier to understand is if things were explained more linearly (front to back)
I watch this channel alot and I can honestly say they are the best, easiest to understand explanations of complex engineering ive seen on KZread. Keep up the good work
Pilot here. Been flying jets for 22 years and I've never heard the cowling referred to as the diffuser. The diffuser is usually the "cookie cutter" looking thing after the turbine stage and can be seen while looking in the tailpipe. Also, the combustion chamber is basically a diffuser with a lot of holes poked in it, to ensure the air is at the right speed and condition for burning Other than that, everything was very accurate. Good video!
@joevignolor4u949
2 жыл бұрын
The video does misidentify the fan duct as a diffuser. A diffuser is characterized as any part of the propulsion system that has a smaller inlet and a bigger outlet that reduces air velocity and converts it into increased pressure and temperature. For example the inlet duct on an F-100 served as a diffuser. It had a small opening in the front of the airplane that led to the larger diameter inlet into the engine. Its purpose was to reduce the high velocity of the supersonic airflow entering the duct and convert it to increased pressure at a lower velocity and higher temperature as it entered the engine. On a turbofan powered jetliner if the diameter of the inlet is smaller than the diameter of the fan then that space in front of the fan is called a diffuser. It also reduces the velocity of the incoming air while increasing the pressure as well as the temperature of the air flowing into the fan. Obviously the diffuser on a subsonic airliner will be a lot less radical than the diffuser on a supersonic jet fighter. As you pointed out other areas of the engine are also diffusers. The area around the combustor is a diffuser because it converts the kinetic energy of the airflow coming out of the compressor into pressure to force the air into the combustor. Then the area behind the combustor is a diffuser because it converts the velocity of the gas coming out of the combustor into increased pressure to drive the turbines.
@ignacioaguirrenoguez6218
Жыл бұрын
@@joevignolor4u949 Diffusers work inversely at supersonic speeds, that's why the SR-71 had variable position cones at the intakes of each engine
Wow, now this is how a visualized presentation should be done ! Not to complex but detailed enough with step by step visualization, superb
This video is insane! It covers the engine in high detail, and the animations are fantastic! Keep up the good work!
Great brief and very clear explanation: congrats.
Wow! I've been scratching my head about jet engines for a long time! One the best videos on a complex topic!
From a heavy jet pilot - superb. Accurate representation and explanation. One of the highest quality I’ve seen
Never could figure these things out but with your visual and seeing it in small details. Especially grateful you made this.
Just WOW! I never came close to understanding how jet engines work until this video! Thanks for the awesome animation and keep up the good work
Good work !I am really impressed to see this masterpiece.Even after learning big big books...students fail to understand the mechanism behind dis,but this video will just clear all the doubts .Thanks man!
Absolutely fantastic explanation and demonstration thank you!
Straight to the point. No long intro BS. That's why I keep on coming back to this channel. Very informative and well put together. Big up.
As someone who's just about to finish Thermodynamics and is studying aerospace engineering, this is beyond badass. Thank you!!
@Elturbo157
3 ай бұрын
Do you know if the F-16 uses a turbofan or turbojet engine? I searched it in Google and also in some videos and didn't find the answer
@Encorous
3 ай бұрын
@@Elturbo157 While I don't have the expertise to comment on the designs of specific aircraft by heart, on a Wikipedia search it looks like F-16s usually operate on turbofan engines for propulsion. But if that is untrustworthy, I unfortunately cannot provide additional help
@Elturbo157
3 ай бұрын
@@Encorous Thanks anyway, and good luck with the studies
@Encorous
3 ай бұрын
@@Elturbo157 Thank you. Best of luck with whatever you're doing
Man what a marvelous production and a professional presentation that's how videos should be edited and produced and what make us love and appreciate youtubers like you , keep up the good job.
This... This right here, is possibly the BEST explanation of commercial and military jet engines I have ever seen.
Best video on jet engines I've seen. Awesome!
the best video watched so far on the working of jet engine...and the graphics are spot on.....brilliant mate...
This is the best video on KZread, like period.
One of the only videos I've seen that actually explains turbojet vs turbofan that there is a fan and a core in a turbofan and mentioned the type of combustor. Good video.
What a great video! Never on the KZread, there were this good of a video explaining Jet Engines. You've solved all of my questions I had for Jet engines, Thank you soooo much!
Wow - VERY good animation & presentation. Best I've seen maybe. Bloody well done. I would think many companies would see this and think "I want our graphics to look that good!"
Love to have you back Please keep posting 😇
Hands down THE BEST animation and explanation. Great job!
I never quite understood how jet engine worked until I watched your amazing production. Outstanding work ! Thank you
These are seriously high quality animations - I assumed when I started to watch that you had maybe a million subs or so. This stuff must take a ton of time to make, but the result makes it totally worth it!
Great video! thank you for your effort making this!
this is fantastic man. Great work I always wanted to know how these engines worked and this video easily explains all of that with superb visual representation.
Aero combustion chief technical scientist here. This is truly one of the best videos I have seen explaining this topic.
just amazing, honestly never seen any video that explains a complex topic in such an understandable way. our education system should be like this. thx for the video. expect more Edu videos from you !!
Really interesting stuff 🔥
There are a lot of videos like this on YT, but this one has extraordinary graphics, and isn't too long too.
THIS IS the best animation explaining how it works that I've found. Thank you
This video is a whole vibe 👌👌
Absolutely amazing! I always wondered how these things worked, and had no clue about the afterburner area. Great work!! :)
Amazingly detailed and easy to understand the high-level simplified overview. Thanks!
The best engine animation I ever saw!! Finally understood the need of that big fan
So, essentially the theory is suck, squeeze, blow, go. Cool video. Thanks for posting. ✌️
Dude this is another level animation. Which software did you use to make this. You inspired me.
About the best explanation on this not so difficult subject seen so far ! Concise, and fine animation besides that. Who could ask for more? 👏
Very nice explanation, thank you very much for your great effort
Thanks for this, I’ve always wondered how they work and now I know! The animations were excellent
Good Narration work Jake! I feel it makes your presentation seem much more powerful. Kudos.
Great presentation, well designed, good job
*Thanks for adding fighter jets engine as well!* 👍
These engines use to be such a mystery to me as a kid, but ever since KZreadrs like you, I feel like a jet engineer
Fantastic animation! Would you mind sharing what application(s) were used to create the video? Thanks!
That calm music background helps me focus. Thanks for this video👍🏻😁
Thank you so much. I’ve been trying to learn about jet cars, and what the white plumes of smoke are, and what the beautiful, powerful, percussive bursts were, and I was having a surprisingly difficult time getting into. This video was exactly what I was looking for. Great stuff. Thank you.
Not only is the visual work excellent, the music really set up the mood. What is the name of the song?
Incredible video! Animations are the only things that help me gain complete understanding of a subject, fantastic job! Btw, how long does it take you to make these animations? It must be a grueling process.
The BEST explanation of how a jet engine works! Great production! Thanks for making this!
Great work. Stunning visuals and very clear explanation.
The ignitors (spark plugs) are only used during start up or in an emergency flame out scenario. The cumbustion is continuous and self sustaining once at iddle speed or above.
@gun4funofficial937
2 жыл бұрын
He clarified this about 2/3 into the video.
Excellent work. I just came from the watch video. My only suggestion is: Go a little slower. Make the videos a little longer. Pause at each segment and allow generous time to look at the animation. Your work is excellent and not only deserves to be viewed and appreciated, but also a slower pace would improve people's ability to absorb and retain. Just my suggestion! Many thanks for the good work.
@UDEMF
3 жыл бұрын
it is at reasonable speed. Watchers can always pause themself if they need more time
Amazing video. I searched on 'the working of a jet engine'. Couldn't get a better hit than this. Wow. Thanks for making, and explaining it to us in all this detail. Also for the contrast between airliner jet engines and airforce jet engines. Never new this before...
Excellent content and presentation. Great research. 😊
Im just watching a lot of things in KZread in preparation for my future isekai adventure.
@crutch517
2 жыл бұрын
👁👄👁 your not planning of jumping in front of a truck, are you?
Oh! Now your next Boeing is coming loaded with my engines.🤔
@foureyedchick
3 жыл бұрын
But I won't be a passenger on that ajrplane lol
Thank you for the broken down quick ride into how it works.
No words man. Incredible job. I get chills reading the aero engineer comments and how stoked they are. Also, your f1 video had me watching over and over 🤘🔥🙏🐊 Keep killing it!
Would be even cooler with the metric system 😩. Especially since this is a very technical topic ...
@animagraffs
4 жыл бұрын
KZread has an option where the community can submit their own subtitle version. Since it's just me doing these projects and they're an incredible amount of work, I did the U.S. English version and am hoping others can help with other languages. I think a UK English or even International English version with metric conversion would be great if you want to help out!
Now i will make jet engines 😌
Awesome visualisation and explanation! Keep up and keep posting more such videos
I worked in the design department for one of the major aero-engine manufacturers for a number of years. Just wanted to say well done - the animation was fantastic but importantly all the information was accurate and exactly how we might describe it in the industry. The only very small nitpick is that not every engine will have a 4 stage IP and a 10 stage HP compressor since it varies from application to application and between companies who have varying house styles. But apart from that, spot on!
I still don’t get it lol
@juststeve-zc7gz
14 күн бұрын
Then you have problems
@oldrango883
12 күн бұрын
Then you can’t get it lol
@EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE1
5 күн бұрын
@@juststeve-zc7gz maybe you just didn't analyse what he said. If you can answer these two questions you analysed the video 1) Why doesn't part of the air go backwards in the combustor 2) Why does afterburner still work if the fuel explodes in every direction.
The F1 video led me to this and all your other videos......TG people like you exist, keep up the GOOD WORK.
Excellent description of how jet engines work. Well done and thanks for sharing.
Wow! I'll have to watch this several times as I'm no engineer and no handyman either!. Amazingly well explained and presented. What humankind can do, genius in my view.
One of the best explanation that i have ever seen about jet engines
I don't think anyone or anything can explain jet engines this good in 5 minutes.
Beautifully narrated? beautifully produced, beautifully written! Thank you!
This is by far the best Animation and Explanation i have seen.
This was really helpful in prepping for airline interviews! Thanks!
Best explanation I've seen and there are plenty out there. The combination of your narration and excellent animation actually made it understandable, thanks!
Wow, this is like the best video about jet engines I have ever seen. Great job!
Your content is the most impressive I have seen yet ...just pure well explained information, and no mumbo jumbo. I wish this was the standard! Salute :)
Loved the explanation❤ Excellent!!
This is why I’m happy to grow up with internet, everything I don’t understand I can look up for free. Very nice to have such high quality animations and presentations
@-solidsnake-
3 жыл бұрын
I love the internet for the same reason but sometimes I worry that I don’t retain anything because I’m so stimulated.
Finally some good explenation of how jet engines work Great Job!
Amazing. Thank you to whoever did this
From someone who is a performance engineer for one of leading jet engine manufacturers this video will really help people with a basic understanding of how these giant complex machines really work behind all the fan case cowling and thrust reverser unit they usually see.
Brilliant animation and narration, your work is amazing!
Wow this is one of the best explanations of the jet engine I’ve seen…
Wow this is some great visual representations. Definitely a nice thing to know how to do for students in technological fields.