Detonation combustion achieves near-constant-volume burning, drastically reducing entropy generation and wasting less energy as heat compared to traditional deflagration propulsion. Its supersonic ...

Explosions of reactive gases and the associated rapid, uncontrolled release of large amounts of energy pose threats of immense destructive power to mining operations, fuel storage facilities, chemical ...

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The US Navy relies heavily on gas turbine engines to power both aircraft and ships, spending about $2 billion (with a “b”… or about one tenth of NASA’s entire budget last year) every year on fuel for ...

Disk rotating detonation engines could provide engines that are 10% more efficient, which could enable hypersonic planes. The USA, China, and Russia will be ramping up hypersonic weapon and hypersonic ...

When most people picture explosions, they probably imagine a huge ball of expanding gas, perhaps with an action hero just barely outrunning the leading edge. In reality, though, there are two types of ...

Detonation wave propulsion harnesses the rapid, self-sustaining shock‐driven combustion of fuel–oxidiser mixtures to achieve pressure gain and significantly higher energy release rates than ...

Continuing high fuel costs and growing environmental pressures could inject new urgency into development of pulse-detonation engine (PDE) technology for wider commercial applications, rather than just ...

Significant research efforts have been devoted to studying the deflagration-to-detonation transition, and progress has been made in understanding its role in confined systems. Importantly, it was ...