Nonidealities in rotating detonation engines

V Raman, S Prakash, M Gamba - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
A rotating detonation engine (RDE) is a realization of pressure-gain combustion, wherein a
traveling detonation wave confined in a chamber provides shock-based compression along …

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 …

On the distributions of fuel droplets and in situ vapor in rotating detonation combustion with prevaporized n-heptane sprays

Q Meng, N Zhao, H Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Rotating detonation combustion fueled with partially prevaporized n-heptane sprays is
studied with the Eulerian–Lagrangian method. A flattened two-dimensional domain with …

Origin and chaotic propagation of multiple rotating detonation waves in hydrogen/air mixtures

M Zhao, H Zhang - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
The origin and chaotic propagation of multiple detonative waves in the two-dimensional
modelled rotating detonation combustor fueled by premixed hydrogen/air mixtures are …

Combustion mode and wave multiplicity in rotating detonative combustion with separate reactant injection

M Zhao, MJ Cleary, H Zhang - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations with detailed chemistry are conducted for two-dimensional rotating
detonative combustion with separate injection of fuel and oxidant. The influences of the fuel …

Rotating detonative combustion in partially pre-vaporized dilute n-heptane sprays: Droplet size and equivalence ratio effects

M Zhao, H Zhang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations are conducted for two-dimensional Rotating Detonative
Combustion (RDC) fueled by partially prevaporized n-heptane dilute sprays by using coarse …

Numerical study on transition structures of oblique detonations with expansion wave from finite-length cowl

GX Xiang, X Gao, WJ Tang, XZ Jie, X Huang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The oblique detonation wave (ODW) triggered by a semi-infinite cowl or wedge has been
widely studied, but the effects of finite-length cowls require further clarification to enhance …

Eulerian-Lagrangian modelling of rotating detonative combustion in partially pre-vaporized n-heptane sprays with hydrogen addition

Q Meng, M Zhao, H Zheng, H Zhang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation combustion (RDC) fuelled with partially pre-vaporized n-heptane sprays
and gaseous hydrogen is studied with an Eulerian-Lagrangian method and a simplified two …

Experimental research on the performance of hollow and annular rotating detonation engines with nozzles

Y Zhang, Z Sheng, G Rong, D Shen, K Wu… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation engines (RDEs), which are hoped to achieve significant performance
improvements in propulsion systems, have received much attention in recent years. The …