THE FEASIBILITY OF A ROTATING DETONATION WAVE ROCKET MOTOR

Abstract

Theoretical studies of an analytical model for the internal gas dynamics associated with a rotating detonation wave engine are presented. The numerical computations to solve the differential equations for the analytical model were carried out for the no mixing case for initial propellant temperatures of 537 and 270 R plots of the various dimensionless gas dynamic parameters versus the dimensionless circumferential coordinate are shown. A modification of the analytical model to handle the case of one propellant injected as a liquid is presented. Work on carrying out the necessary numerical computations is in progress. An expression for the specific impulse of the idealized rotating detonation wave engine was obtained. Comparison with the ideal conventional rocket engine shows that the vacuum specific impulse is essentially the same for both cases. A list of sizing rules derived from the analytical model is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0410035

Entities

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Detonation Waves
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flow Rate
  • Ignition
  • Liquid Propellants
  • Mass Flow
  • Rocket Engines
  • Shock Waves
  • Steady Flow
  • Time Intervals
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Rocket Propulsion.