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Carlos PdL SdT
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I have a weird question here. At what speed does air flow from a pressurized container at one atm into vacuum (rupture in ISS for example).
I was watching the Martian and I wanted to see how much deltaV Mark Wattney can get by puncturing his suit, so I did my homework and saw that the spacesuit held two liters of liquid nitrogen and one liter of liquid oxigen (about 2.6kg total propellant mass). The mass of a person with a spacesuit is 100kg as estimated by NASA in the bok, so I only needed to know the specific impulse, or the exit velocity. I applied Bernoulli and came to an answer of about 400m/s which is way more than Mach 0.3 so Bernoulli doesn't work.
How do I get the air escape speed if it is above Mach 0.3?
I was watching the Martian and I wanted to see how much deltaV Mark Wattney can get by puncturing his suit, so I did my homework and saw that the spacesuit held two liters of liquid nitrogen and one liter of liquid oxigen (about 2.6kg total propellant mass). The mass of a person with a spacesuit is 100kg as estimated by NASA in the bok, so I only needed to know the specific impulse, or the exit velocity. I applied Bernoulli and came to an answer of about 400m/s which is way more than Mach 0.3 so Bernoulli doesn't work.
How do I get the air escape speed if it is above Mach 0.3?