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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling thermodynamic trends of rotating detonation engines

J Koch, JN Kutz - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The formation of a number of co-and counter-rotating coherent combustion wave fronts is the
hallmark feature of the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE). The engineering implications of …

Numerical study on droplet evaporation and propagation stability in normal-temperature two-phase rotating detonation system

H Wen, W Fan, S Xu, B Wang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
A numerical study is carried out on the droplet-laden two-phase rotating detonation wave of
kerosene/oxygen-enriched air at normal temperature. Two types of combustors without and …

[HTML][HTML] Scale effects on rotating detonation rocket engine operation

T Mundt, C Knowlen, M Kurosaka - Applications in Energy and Combustion …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation rocket engines are propulsive devices employing detonation waves
moving circumferentially around an annular channel that consume axially fed propellants …

RDC operation and performance with varying air injector pressure loss

E Bach, CO Paschereit, P Stathopoulos… - AIAA Scitech 2020 …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Four different air injectors with an area of 14.4%, 23.0%, 28.7%, and 46.0% of the
combustion annulus area are installed in a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) and tested …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven surrogates of rotating detonation engine physics with neural ordinary differential equations and high-speed camera footage

J Koch - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Interacting multi-scale physics in the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) lead to diverse
nonlinear dynamical behavior, including combustion wave mode-locking, modulation, and …

Multiscale physics of rotating detonation waves: Autosolitons and modulational instabilities

J Koch, M Kurosaka, C Knowlen, JN Kutz - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Proposed is a phenomenological modeling framework that is capable of reproducing the
diverse experimental observations of the nonlinear, combustion wave propagation in a …

Data-driven modeling of rotating detonation waves

A Mendible, J Koch, H Lange, SL Brunton, JN Kutz - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
The direct monitoring of a rotating detonation engine (RDE) combustion chamber has
enabled the observation of combustion front dynamics that are composed of a number of …

Numerical simulation of radial-stratified rotating detonation flow field structures with different injection patterns

Y Zheng, C Wang, B Xiao, Y Liu, J Cai - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation engine has been widely studied in recent years because of its high
theoretical efficiency and heat release rate. In many numerical simulations, the combustible …

Experimental study on upstream pressure characteristics of rotating detonation engine with methane and oxygen-enriched air

P Liu, Y Wang, X Zhang, Y Li, JZ Ma, J Wang - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The interaction mechanism between the rotating detonation engine (RDE) and its upstream
is one key issue that needs to be explored when considering its application. In this study …