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 …

To generate thrust efficiently is the ultimate objective of developing a practical propulsion
device utilizing detonation. The rotating detonation engine shows its great potentials …

Pressure-gain combustion (PGC) systems utilize unsteady combustion processes where gas
expansion is constrained during heat release to achieve a cycle-averaged total pressure …

To improve the propulsive performance, exhaust nozzles are desired for rotating detonation
engines in practical applications. Therefore, their effects on the upstream behaviors inside …

The flow of products through the aft-end of a detonation combustor is intrinsically unsteady,
ultimately resulting in periodic and nonuniform flow parameters at the exit plane of a rotating …

In supersonic aerospace applications, aerospike nozzles have been subject of growing
interest. This study sheds light on the noise components of a cold jet exhausting an …

Computational design of rotating detonation engines (RDEs) has been limited by the high
computational expense associated with resolving the shock-reaction structures. Due to the …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-4385. vid This work examines the
operability and performance effects of various annular chamber geometries of a rotating …

In this paper, the flow and acoustic characteristics of an aerospike nozzle jet at a Nozzle
Pressure Ratio (NPR)= 3 and three different Temperature Ratios (TR)= 1, 3, 7 are presented …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3675. vid Understanding the
unsteady exhaust flow-field of a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) is important for its …