in this work, the feasibility study for design of a laboratory sample rde which has an annular geometry with diameter of 76 mm and length of 101 mm has been performed. detonation engines are expected to be used as propulsion system in aerospace applications in the future. several types of detonation engines are currently under examination, including the rotating detonation engine (rde). first, ...

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Pulse detonation technology can be a revolutionary approach for propulsion system since it offers significant fuel efficiency, higher thrust to weight ratio and low cost. Although the design concept of a pulse detonation engine is comparatively simple, but the development and stabilization of sustainable detonation wave front is difficult. Consequently pulse detonation engine technology is stil...

Experiments were carried out in FY04 on detonation wave structure, detonation wave diffraction, and the fracture of thin-walled tubes by detonation waves. Computations were performed on detonation wave propagation and the elastic response of tubes to detonation loading. One new effort was initiated on the diffraction of detonation waves, and the other activities were a continuation of previous ...

Research at the Explosion Dynamics Laboratories at Caltech over the past three years under an ONR contract has examined many issues critical to Pulse Detonation Engine (PDE) development. These include: fundamental and applied studies of detonation initiation; detonation cell width measurements to characterize fuels, including JP10; visualization of the reaction zone structure of propagating det...

One of the basic equations to analyze the detonation of high explosives is the equation of state of the detonation products. Due to the very high pressure of the product, the direct measurement of the thermodynamic variables such as pressure or temperature is not possible. In this research, the parameters of BKW and HOM equations of state of detonation products are determined via experimental m...

an optical system has been redesigned and used to measure detonation velocity as a function of condensed explosive density for rdx, hmx, petn. these measurements are then used to determine and fine tune parameters appearing in the bkw (beker-kistiakowsky-wilson) equation of state for gases at extremely high pressures. steady state form of conservation equations along with the bkw state equation...

An auto-ignition detonation phenomenon can be initiated by a wedge confined in a channel. A new, self-sustaining, normal detonation wave engine concept is proposed. The detonation processes were numerically modeled with a simplified two-dimensional wedged channel flow that was deemed to emulate a real three-dimensional configuration. The results showed that within certain ranges of incoming flo...