New Hellburn!

[kremlin]

hi,

the 2:1 ratio is not always ideal, it's too rich of a burn for most relevant engine states

there is a tool that will help you discover exactly what you are looking for, you can read about it here


i created it to answer exactly the kinds of questions you're asking

if you have any questions about it, don't hesitate to ask

secondly, be very careful at how much you read into one line of source code from a year ago. the way this thing works is not straightforward and very prone to misunderstandings and misconceptions. i can promise you, that even if you read all of the FEA source, you still would not have a clue what is going on in a hellburn

Kremlin your new computer is excellent. I've been watching the accelerations mostly and I noticed that injections of mix into the chamber occur every 3 ticks or something like that. It causes the accelerations to oscillate.

On a side note, I think that the engine's power output is exponential during a hellburn. The time it takes to go from 1 MW to 1000 MW is the same time it takes to go from 1 GW to 1000 GW etc... 
So it probably follows a form like Output (Watts) =  1000 (Watts) ^  (Ticks / TickConstant). And the better the burn is, the lower the TickConstant is. 

Maybe I'm wrong though, and it just looks similar to an exponential. The most important thing to do is to keep peeling back the layers until we find a variable that remains constant during a hellburn (or just repeats a constant pattern over 3 ticks). Cause once we find that variable, we can compare it against everything else. It can be the 'Score' of the burn. I haven't played around with your device long enough to see what values can be used to describe a burn, but accelerations look promising.

no, you're exactly right and it's an outstanding bug