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<p>Detonation is a promising combustion mode to improve engine performance, increase combustion efficiency, reduce emissions, and enhance thermal cycle efficiency. Over the last decade, significant progress has been made towards the applications of detonation mode in engines, such as standing detonation engine (SDE), Pulse detonation engine (PDE) and rotating detonation engine (RDE), and the understanding of the fundamental chemistry and physics processes in detonation engines via experimental and numerical studies. This article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the progress in the knowledge of rotating detonation engine from the different countries. New observations of injection, ignition, and geometry of combustor, pressure feedback, and combustion modes of RDE have been reported. These findings and advances have provided new opportunities in the development of rotating detonation for practical applications. Finally, we point out the current gaps in knowledge to indicate which areas future research should be directed at.</p>
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Detonation is a promising combustion mode to improve engine performance, increase combustion efficiency, reduce emissions, and enhance thermal cycle efficiency. Over the last decade, significant progress has been made towards the applications of detonation mode in engines, such as standing detonation engine (SDE), Pulse detonation engine (PDE) and rotating detonation engine (RDE), and the understanding of the fundamental chemistry and physics processes in detonation engines via experimental and numerical studies. This article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the progress in the knowledge of rotating detonation engine from the different countries. New observations of injection, ignition, and geometry of combustor, pressure feedback, and combustion modes of RDE have been reported. These findings and advances have provided new opportunities in the development of rotating detonation for practical applications. Finally, we point out the current gaps in knowledge to indicate which areas future research should be directed at.

Review on the Rotating Detonation Engine and It’s Typical Problems

Transactions on Aerospace Research

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Detonation is a promising combustion mode to improve engine performance, increase combustion efficiency, reduce emissions, and enhance thermal cycle...

Review on the Rotating Detonation Engine and It’s Typical Problems

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2020

Pages: 107 - 163

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tar-2020-0024

Mots clés
Detonation, propulsion system, rotating detonation

© 2017 Copyright by Lukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Review on the Rotating Detonation Engine and It’s Typical Problems

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2020

Pages: 107 - 163

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tar-2020-0024

Mots clésDetonation, propulsion system, rotating detonation

© 2017 Copyright by Lukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Detonation, propulsion system, rotating detonation