A numerical study of the pulse detonation wave engine with hydrocarbon fuels

34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Sekar, Balu ^a   Palaniswamy, Sampath ^b   Peroomian, Oshin ^b   Chakravarthy, Sukumar ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Metacomp Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETONATION; ENGINES; HYDROCARBONS; PROPULSION; SHOCK WAVES;

DETONATION WAVES; FINITE-RATE CHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBON FUEL; KINETIC MECHANISM; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE DETONATION WAVE ENGINES; RAREFACTION WAVES;

PULSE DETONATION ENGINES;

EID: 69249116482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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