Experimental validation of rotating detonation for rocket propulsion

JW Bennewitz, JR Burr, BR Bigler, RF Burke… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… due to the complex combustion processes. Detonations create a shock-driven reacting flow
field … face within the combustor are used in assessing the injector pressure drop. Propellant …

Droplet and multiphase effects in a shock-driven hydrodynamic instability with reshock

JB Middlebrooks, CG Avgoustopoulos, WJ Black… - Experiments in …, 2018 - Springer
… energy explosions, scramjet combustors, and supernovae events… The filter area was large
and produced a very low-pressure drop (… The We is likely too low in the small droplet cases for …

Liquid fuel refill dynamics in a rotating detonation combustor using megahertz planar laser-induced fluorescence

MW Hoeper, AM Webb, V Athmanathan… - … of the Combustion …, 2023 - Elsevier
… that even for high-pressure-drop liquid injectors, spray breakup, … Two imaging schemes
were implemented to capture small-… Due to the relatively dense spray in the small FOV near the …

Hypersonic Shock-Induced Combustion Propulsion

C Knowlen, A Higgins, P Harris… - 47th AIAA Aerospace …, 2009 - arc.aiaa.org
… The total pressure drop and associated entropy rise due to … to high pressure from the shock
driven into the propellant by the … The relatively small scale at which these experiments were …

A review of flash evaporation phenomena and resulting shock waves

A Mansour, N Müller - Experimental thermal and fluid science, 2019 - Elsevier
… caused by a sudden pressure drop sufficiently below the … a key element in the successful
combustion of liquid fuels and … chamber pressure is low or the droplet diameter is small. The …

Numerical study of cavitation in the wake of a hypervelocity underwater projectile

R Saurel, JP Cocchi, PB Butler - Journal of Propulsion and power, 1999 - arc.aiaa.org
… At the nozzle inlet throat of such a device, the pressure drop is … by numerical tests to be as
small as possible and to preserve … This shock-driven condensation test case puts in evidence …

The aerodynamic breakup and interactions of evaporating water droplets with a propagating shock wave

Z Huang, R Zhu, M Davy - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2024 - Springer
… It differs from the small droplets in our recent study (\({d}_{0}\) = 5–20 μm) (Huang and Zhang
2020a), where the droplet velocities are rapidly balanced with the carrier gas one after the …

[PDF][PDF] Compressible Turbulent Reactions for Hypersonic Propulsion Applications

J Sosa - 2019 - purl.flvc.org
… standing flame induced by shock-driven turbulence in a Turbulent … in hypersonics and reduced
combustion emissions, the … developed for the stagnation pressure drop across the normal …

A Numerical Investigation of Liquid Fuel Powered Rotating Detonation Engines

M Nagori, P Tarey, J Boles, T Nielsen… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
compact design and their ability to be used as a coolant [6]. The presence of liquid fuel droplets
in the combustion … cm is attributed to the pressure drop following flow expansion near the …

Autoignition studies of conventional and Fischer–Tropsch jet fuels

H Wang, MA Oehlschlaeger - Fuel, 2012 - Elsevier
… are to be useful in combustion engine simulations. With the … Example reflected shock pressure
profile for a shock driven … stroke chemical reaction and pressure drop, due to heat transfer …