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 …

Multi-wave effects on stability and performance in rotating detonation combustors

Z Sheng, M Cheng, JP Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, with the development of detonation-based propulsion systems, scholars have
begun to study how to perform mode control on the rotating detonation combustor (RDC). It …

Investigation of counter-rotating shock wave and wave direction control of hollow rotating detonation engine with Laval nozzle

G Rong, M Cheng, Z Sheng, X Liu, Y Zhang… - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The counter-rotating shock wave and wave direction control of the hollow rotating detonation
combustor with Laval nozzle are studied. The in-house solver BYRFoam, developed on the …

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 …

Flow field of a rotating detonation engine fueled by carbon

W Zhu, Y Wang, J Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Solid–gas rotating detonation engines have been widely studied, but experimental
limitations have prevented the full information of the flow field from being revealed. This …

Analysis of flow-field characteristics and pressure gain in air-breathing rotating detonation combustor

K Wu, S Zhang, D She, J Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed on air-breathing rotating detonation
combustors with detailed H 2/air chemistry. Detonation-related flow structures and pressure …

Rotating detonation wave direction and the influence of nozzle guide vane inclination

E Bach, CO Paschereit, P Stathopoulos, MD Bohon - AIAA Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
This study describes a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) equipped with a set of nozzle
guide vanes (NGVs) of variable number and inclination angle. Different instrumented guide …

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 …

Flow-field reconstruction in rotating detonation combustor based on physics-informed neural network

X Wang, H Wen, T Hu, B Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The flow-field reconstruction of a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) is essential to
understand the stability mechanism and performance of rotating detonation engines. This …

Numerical study of the mechanisms of the longitudinal pulsed detonation in two-dimensional rotating detonation combustors

XJ He, XY Liu, JP Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A numerical study of the longitudinal pulsed detonation (LPD) is conducted in the present
paper. The occurrence mechanism of the LPD, called shock wave amplification by coherent …