Air Force Research Lab, DARPA and NASA Rotating Detonating Engine Research
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6Z15D)
There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel. Computational simulations and experimental results have shown that the ...