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 …

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 …

A review towards the design optimization of high performance additively manufactured rotating detonation rocket engine injectors

TW Teasley, CS Protz, AP Larkey, BB Williams… - AIAA Propulsion and …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3655. vid Rotating Detonation
Rocket Engines (RDRE) have been marketed primarily for their higher specific impulse …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental research on the instability propagation characteristics of liquid kerosene rotating detonation wave

Q Zheng, H Meng, C Weng, Y Wu, W Feng, M Wu - Defence Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to study the instability propagation characteristics of the liquid kerosene rotating
detonation wave (RDW), a series of experimental tests were carried out on the rotating …

Formation of multiple detonation waves in rotating detonation engines with inhomogeneous methane/oxygen mixtures under different equivalence ratios

Z Luan, Y Huang, S Gao, Y You - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of rotating detonation engines is strongly affected by the multiple
detonation waves that occur, although the reason for their formation has not yet been fully …

The feasibility of mode control in rotating detonation engine

L Deng, H Ma, C Xu, X Liu, C Zhou - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The feasibility of mode control in rotating detonation engine is investigated through
regulating the global equivalence ratio during the test under different air mass flow rates …

High-speed imaging of wave modes in an RDC

MD Bohon, R Bluemner, CO Paschereit… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2019 - Elsevier
Various operating modes have been observed in the rotating detonation combustor (RDC)
studied here, as well as by others. These modes can be generally categorized into two …

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 …

Numerical investigation of a rotating detonation engine under premixed/non-premixed conditions

J Sun, J Zhou, S Liu, Z Lin - Acta astronautica, 2018 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation engines are widely studied because of their compact configurations and
high thermal cycle efficiency. For briefty, most of the numerical simulations of rotating …

A rotating detonation engine using methane-ethylene mixture and air

Y Wang, J Le - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of hydrocarbon fuels often have larger methane numbers than hydrogen. It is more
difficult to detonate the mixture of hydrocarbon fuels and air at room temperatures in non …