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Old 08-27-2008, 04:10 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MechEngVT View Post
I always thought a really cool throttle would be a sphincter. Lacking anything else to call it that's how I envision it...an idealized convergent-divergent nozzle (i.e. a venturi) that can smoothly and continuously change the area of the minimum opening to vary the mass flow through the nozzle. Haven't quite worked out the practical aspects of that yet.
When I read that I thought about something like this:



But without the holes and with the bottom of it removed. Have 2 facing each other.
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