Air Force Research Lab, DARPA and NASA Rotating Detonating Engine Research

Air Force Research Lab, DARPA and NASA Rotating Detonating Engine Research

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 ...