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Experimental validation of rotating detonation for rocket propulsion [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Space travel requires high-powered, efficient rocket propulsion systems for controllable launch vehicles and safe planetary entry. Interplanetary travel will rely on energy-dense propellants to produce thrust via combustion as the heat generation process
John W. Bennewitz, Jason R. Burr, Blaine R. Bigler, Robert F. Burke, Aaron Lemcherfi, Tyler Mundt, Taha Rezzag, Ethan W. Plaehn, Jonathan Sosa, Ian V. Walters, S. Alexander Schumaker, Kareem A. Ahmed, Carson D. Slabaugh, Carl Knowlen, William A. Hargus   +14 more
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Combustion Characteristics in Rotating Detonation Engines [PDF]

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2021
A lot of studies on rotating detonation engines have been carried out due to the higher thermal efficiency. However, the number, rotating directions, and intensities of rotating detonation waves are changeful when the flow rate, equivalence ratio, inflow
Yuhui Wang, Wenyou Qiao, JialingLe
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Thrust characteristics research on continuous rotating detonation engine

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023
Detonation combustion can produce pressure enhancement effect, increasing engine thrust. In this paper, a 2D Euler control equation with chemical reaction is used to solve the periodic flow of the detonation wave in a rectangular plane. The combustion of
Qingwu Wang, Shihui Zhang
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Experimental Research of Two-phase Rotating Detonation Combustor Operating with High Total Temperature Air [PDF]

Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2022
Experiments on a two-phase rotating detonation combustor operating with gasoline and high total temperature air were conducted to investigate the initiation characteristics, operation mode, and propagation characteristics of a two-phase rotating ...
G. Ge, Y. Ma, Z. Xia, H. Ma, L. Deng, C. Zhou   +5 more
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Characteristics of rotating detonation wave fueled by liquid kerosene with increasing equivalence ratios

FirePhysChem, 2023
To investigate the characteristics of rotating detonation waves fueled by liquid kerosene with increasing equivalence ratios, the experiments were performed through increasing the supply of liquid kerosene under three different mass flow rates of ...
Haolong Meng, Baoxing Li, Guiyang Xu, Zhong Wang, Chunsheng Weng   +4 more
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Experimental Investigation on Two-Phase Rotating Detonation Fueled by Kerosene in a Hollow Directed Combustor

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022
The operating characteristic of two-phase rotating detonation fueled by kerosene in a hollow combustor with the isolation section is experimentally studied. When the air mass flow rate is 1.5 kg/s, the equivalence ratio is 0.98, and the total temperature
Sainan Xue, Zhuojun Ying, Hu Ma, Changsheng Zhou   +3 more
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Experimental Investigation of a Cylindrical Air-Breathing Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine with Different Nozzle Throat Diameters

Aerospace, 2022
A continuous detonation engine with various exhaust nozzles, analogous to typical scramjet cavity combustors with variable rear-wall heights, was adopted to perform a succession of cylindrical air-breathing continuous rotating detonation experiments ...
Guangyu Wang, Shijie Liu, Haoyang Peng, Weidong Liu   +3 more
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Numerical and boundary condition effects on the prediction of detonation engine behavior using detailed numerical simulations

Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, 2023
High-fidelity numerical simulations of an experimental rotating detonation engine with discrete fuel/air injection were conducted. A series of configurations with different feed-plenum pressures but with constant equivalence ratio were studied.
Takuma Sato, Caleb Van Beck, Venkat Raman   +2 more
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Numerical Investigation of Contact Burning in an Air-Breathing Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2022
Three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations of a continuous rotating detonation engine are carried out with an unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solver.
Dapeng Xiong, Mingbo Sun, Haoyang Peng, Yanan Wang, Yixin Yang, Hongbo Wang, Jiangfei Yu, Zhenguo Wang   +7 more
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Performance analysis of a rotating detonation model for future thermal power system using hydrogen as fuel

Energy Reports, 2022
The thermodynamic cycles of the detonation combustion could potentially deliver a performance increase of 20% beyond the conventional deflagration combustor such as gas turbines and ramjets, thus the detonative combustor is a prospective technology for ...
Mengmeng Zhao, Linqing Zhang, Weiye Huo, Hongyu Yang, Yixiang Yuan   +4 more
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