Rotating detonation combustors and their similarities to rocket instabilities

V Anand, E Gutmark - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation combustors (RDC) are at the forefront of pressure gain combustion
(PGC) research, utilizing one or more azimuthally spinning detonation waves, an intrinsically …

Recent progress, development trends, and consideration of continuous detonation engines

JZ Ma, MY Luan, ZJ Xia, JP Wang, S Zhang, S Yao… - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
The continuous detonation engine (CDE) is based on detonation waves and is a new jet
engine concept that is expected to bring a technical revolution to current aviation and …

Performance analysis of a rotating detonation combustor based on stagnation pressure measurements

E Bach, P Stathopoulos, CO Paschereit… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study explores the effect of differing inlet and outlet boundary conditions on the
operation and performance of a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) over an annulus mass …

Numerical research on two-phase kerosene/air rotating detonation engines

F Wang, C Weng - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper numerically investigates the propagation and propulsive performance of
an ideal three-dimensional gas-liquid two-phase kerosene/air rotating detonation engine …

Effects of variable total pressures on instability and extinction of rotating detonation combustion

M Zhao, JM Li, CJ Teo, BC Khoo, H Zhang - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2020 - Springer
Instability, extinction and re-initiation of rotating detonation in a two-dimensional Rotating
Detonation Engine (RDE) configuration are numerically investigated, and the emphasis is …

Effects of slot injection on detonation wavelet characteristics in a rotating detonation engine

C Yan, H Teng, HD Ng - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to investigate the effects of spatially
discrete slot injection of reactants on the features of detonation wavelets in a rotating …

Experimental investigation on additively manufactured transpiration and film cooling structures

Z Min, G Huang, SN Parbat… - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The last 50 years has witnessed significant improvement in film cooling technologies while
transpiration cooling is still not implemented in turbine airfoil cooling. Although transpiration …

On the wave propagation modes and operation range in rotating detonation combustor with varied injection and outlet throat

Y Wu, G Xu, C Ding, C Weng - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The rotating detonation combustor (RDC) has received remarkable attention in the
aerospace community. In this work, an experimental RDC model supplied by liquid …

Characterization of a supersonic turbine downstream of a rotating detonation combustor

Z Liu, J Braun, G Paniagua - … of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Rotating detonation combustors (RDCs) offer theoretically a significant total pressure
increase, which may result in enhanced cycle efficiency. The fluctuating exhaust of RDC …

Experimental investigation on pulse operation characteristics of rotating detonation rocket engine

S Zhou, Y Ma, F Liu, N Hu - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The pressure-gain rotating detonation rocket engine is expected to develop as an
attitude/orbit control power device for high-performance spacecraft. In this paper, the short …