Recent progress, development trends, and consideration of continuous detonation engines

JZ Ma, MY Luan, ZJ **a, 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 …

Vehicular applications of koopman operator theory—A survey

WA Manzoor, S Rawashdeh, A Mohammadi - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Koopman operator theory has proven to be a promising approach to nonlinear system
identification and global linearization. For nearly a century, there had been no efficient …

On the effects of reactant stratification and wall curvature in non-premixed rotating detonation combustors

V Athmanathan, J Braun, ZM Ayers, CA Fugger… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optimization of non-premixed rotating detonation combustors (RDCs) requires improved
understanding of the coupled effects of reactant stratification, fluid property gradients, and …

First principles reaction discovery: from the Schrodinger equation to experimental prediction for methane pyrolysis

R Xu, J Meisner, AM Chang, KC Thompson… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Our recent success in exploiting graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate quantum
chemistry computations led to the development of the ab initio nanoreactor, a computational …

An empirical model for stagnation pressure gain in rotating detonation combustors

E Bach, CO Paschereit, P Stathopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work investigates the stagnation pressure gain in rotating detonation combustors (RDC)
and its dependency on the geometry and mass flux of the combustor. Using a Kiel probe to …

Analysis of weak secondary waves in a rotating detonation engine using large-eddy simulation and wavenumber-domain filtering

G Vignat, D Brouzet, M Bonanni, M Ihme - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation engines (RDEs) are pressure-gain combustion devices which allow for
a compact and mechanically simple engine design with improved thermodynamic efficiency …

Performance characterization of a natural gas–air rotating detonation engine

IV Walters, A Lemcherfi, RM Gejji, SD Heister… - Journal of Propulsion …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
An experimental study of a rotating detonation engine (RDE) operating with natural gas and
air at elevated chamber pressures and air preheat temperatures was conducted to quantify …

High-bandwidth absorption-spectroscopy measurements of temperature, pressure, CO, and HO in the annulus of a rotating detonation rocket engine

GC Mathews, MG Blaisdell, AI Lemcherfi… - Applied Physics B, 2021 - Springer
The development and application of two laser-absorption-spectroscopy diagnostics capable
of performing high-bandwidth measurements of (1) temperature, pressure, and CO, and (2) …

Flow and performance analysis of a natural gas-air rotating detonation engine with high-speed velocimetry

IV Walters, RM Gejji, SD Heister, CD Slabaugh - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation of a high pressure, natural gas-air rotating detonation engine
is presented. Simultaneous high-speed measurements of combustion chamber 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 …