Air Breathing Propulsion Controls and Diagnostics Research at NASA Glenn Under NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Programs [PDF]
This lecture will provide an overview of the aircraft turbine engine control research at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Glenn Research Center (GRC).
Garg, Sanjay
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Operational Characteristics of a Rotating Detonation Engine Using Hydrogen and Air [PDF]
, 2011 Rotating detonation engines (RDE) are pressure gain combustion engines that have the potential for greater efficiency than traditional, constant pressure, deflagration engines. RDEs are smaller and mechanically simpler than pulsed detonation engines.
Russo, Rachel M.
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A Compact Fiber-Coupled NIR/MIR Laser Absorption Instrument for the Simultaneous Measurement of Gas-Phase Temperature and CO, CO2, and H2O Concentration. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2022 Shi L +4 more
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Heat Exchanger Design and Testing for a 6-Inch Rotating Detonation Engine [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis explains the design and testing of a water-cooled rotating detonation engine (RDE) run on hydrogen and air. The change in water temperature as it cooled the engine was used to find the steady heat rate into the containing walls of the ...
Theuerkauf, Scott W.
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Defining and Measuring Pressure Gain [PDF]
This presentation describes experimental and computational approaches to measuring pressure gain in the various devices currently under investigation wherein the working fluid undergoes a pressure gain combustion (PGC) process.
Paxson, Dan
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Detonation Physics-Based Modelling & Design of a Rotating Detonation Engine [PDF]
, 2019 A rotating detonation engine (RDE) is a new, more thermodynamically efficient, propulsion concept that replaces the traditional constant pressure combustion mechanism found in all currently used rockets and power generation devices. The constant pressure
Connolly-Boutin, Sean Francis
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Summary of Pressure Gain Combustion Research at NASA [PDF]
NASA has undertaken a systematic exploration of many different facets of pressure gain combustion over the last 25 years in an effort to exploit the inherent thermodynamic advantage of pressure gain combustion over the constant pressure combustion ...
Paxson, Daniel E., Perkins, H. Douglas
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Scaling Analysis and Experimental Investigation of a Rotating Detonation Engine [PDF]
, 2019 Pressure gain combustion (PGC) technologies, specifically rotating detonation engines (RDEs), are poised to provide the next big leap in gas turbine engine advancement, significantly increasing the thermal.
Billups, David Thomas
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Operational Stability Limits in Rotating Detonation Engine Numerical Simulations [PDF]
An instability is described which arises in computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations of semi-idealized rotating detonation engines (RDE) configured with a throat at the exit.
Paxson, Daniel E., Schwer, Douglas A.
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Synchronized Initiation of Two Cylindrical Rotating Detonation Engines [PDF]
A coupled cylindrical rotating detonation engine (RDE) with two cylindrical RDEs (both combustors had a combustor inner diameter of 23 mm and an axial length of 30 mm) placed next to each other was tested for rocket clustering application.
Funaki, Ikkoh +7 more
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