Applications of detonations to propulsion are reviewed. First, the advantages of the
detonation cycle over the constant pressure combustion cycle, typical of conventional …

Experimental investigations on the propulsive modes of the ram accelerator are reviewed in
this paper. The ram accelerator is a ramjet-in-tube projectile accelerator whose principle of …

Detonation wave in gases is an extremely fast combustion phenomenon that raises both the
pressure and temperature of the gaseous products behind it. The detonation wave is also …

A new launcher technology called the ram accelerator has been under development since
1983 for applications as a scalable hypervelocity accelerator capable, in principle, of …

A computational study of shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions involving premixed
combustible gases is presented. The analysis is carried out using a new fully implicit, total …

This study numerically investigates the effects of diluent gas proportion, the overdrive factor,
and throat width on the wave structure and thrust performance of a ram accelerator …

A Hugoniot analysis of the quasi-one-dimensional ram accelerator propulsive modes is
presented which relates the thermodynamic properties of the stationary propellant gas to the …

A computational study of a ramjet-in-tube concept known as the" ram accelerator'9 is
presented. The analysis assumes inviscid flow, and employs a total variation diminishing …

This paper considers, from a unified point of view, problems of initiation of detonation
combustion of a gaseous mixture using a hypervelocity projectile (HVP), The consideration …

The Ram Accelerator is a ramjet-in-tube concept developed at the University of Washington
for accelerating projectiles to very high velocities [F]. Depending on the speed of the …