The paper is focused on recent accomplishments in basic and applied research on pulse
detonation engines (PDE) and various PDE design concepts. Current understanding of gas …

PULSE detonation engines (PDEs) are unsteady propulsion devices that produce thrust by
using repetitive propagating detonation. Extensive efforts have been applied to circumvent …

Thrust Chamber Dynamics and Propulsive Performance of Single-Tube Pulse Detonation
Engines Page 1 JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER Vol. 21, No. 3, May–June 2005 …

The performance (specific impulse, I sp) of a modular, 150-lb f-class rotating detonation
rocket engine (RDRE) was measured with three gaseous fuels (methane, ethane, and …

This work demonstrates single-shot, two-dimensional temperature measurements in a
premixed linear detonation channel using two-color OH planar laser-induced fluorescence …

PULSE-DETONATION engines (PDEs) are propulsion systems based on the intermittent use
of detonative combustion. A typical airbreathing PDE consists of an inlet, a series of valves …

A quasi-one-dimensional method of characteristics (MOC) model is developed to evaluate
the single-cycle gasdynamic flow field and associated propulsive performance of a fully-and …

THE pulsed detonation engine was studied by Nicholls et al.[1] as a thrust-producing device
as early as 1957. Interest then seems to have lapsed until it was revived in 1991 by …

In the present study, flame acceleration driven by an array of multiple ignition kernels,
equally spaced in the axial direction of a channel closed at one end, is studied numerically …

PULSE detonation engines (PDE) use controlled periodic deto-nations of a combustible
mixture to generate thrust. 1 Detonation combustion differs from the more commonly used …