Detonation properties of unsensitized and sensitized JP-10 and Jet-A fuels in air for pulse detonation engines

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Akbar, R ^a   Thibault, P A ^a   Harris, P G ^b   Lussier, L S ^b   Zhang, F ^c   Murray, S B ^c   Gerrard, K ^c  

^a Combustion Dynamics Ltd ^*  (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^c CFB Suffield   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FUELS; NITRATES; PROPULSION; PULSE DETONATION ENGINES;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DETONATION CELL SIZES; DETONATION PROPERTIES; DETONATION VELOCITY; FUEL-AIR MIXTURES; INITIAL PRESSURE; PULSE DETONATION; TEST SECTIONS;

DETONATION;

EID: 84895878787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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