Research Summaries

Back Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) Technology Development

Fiscal Year 2011
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Brophy, Christopher M.
Sponsor Air Force Research Laboratory (Air Force)
Summary The Rocket Propulsion Laboratory will perform research in the subject matter area of constant-volume combustions in support of pulse detonation engine technology. Each of the areas listed below either permits the efficient and reliable generation of detonation waves or produces conditions required for practical engine operation. The specific topic areas are provided below with a short description of the activities to be performed. Since all experimental testing relies on properly simulating the expected flight conditions, the vitiated air-heating system will replaced with a heat-exchanger approach to deliver hot/dry air to the various test articles. Some of the existing imaging diagnostics may be modified and upgraded to properly characterize flow fields of interest under both single-cycle and multi-cycle operation.
1) Low-loss swept ramp obstacle fields, 2) Transient Plasma Ignition, 3) Fluidic flow switching survey, 4) Piezoelectric breakup, 5) Rapid-expansion Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE)
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