Effect of supercritical fuel injection on the cycle performance of a pulsed detonation engine

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 7786-7798

  Helfrich, Timothy M ^a,d,e   King, Paul I ^a,d,e   Hoke, John L ^b,e,f   Schauer, Frederick R ^c,e  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f AFRL/PRTC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLE PERFORMANCE; DETONATION WAVES; LOW VAPOR PRESSURE LIQUID HYDROCARBONS; PULSED DETONATION ENGINES (PDE);

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DETONATION; HYDROCARBONS; IGNITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VAPOR PRESSURE;

FUEL INJECTION;

EID: 34249303082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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