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 ...

An experimental pulse-detonation-powered aircraft should begin test flights next month at Mojave, Calif., now that the FAA has issued it an airworthiness certificate. Powered by a pulse detonation ...

Flight tests of an experimental aircraft powered by a pulse-detonation engine are to be retried by the end of this year, says the Ohio-based US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The engine has ...

Various forms of unsteady or pulse detonation combustion in the future could feature turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine concepts that form part of NASA’s ongoing studies into highly reliable, ...

Engines that convert chemical energy from fuel into kinetic energy via explosive detonation, rather than slower deflagration combustion as seen in typical internal combustion engines. Categories ...

Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing created a new design known as the ...

A new family of engines aims to harness the power of detonation shockwaves to create ever-faster rocket engines. One of these engines—known as a rotating detonation engine (RDE)—has shown some ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University have developed new combustion technology that can shrink the size of engines and eliminates the need for them to be round in shape. The novel ...

A.At the risk of oversimplification, here is the relationship between cylinder pressure conditions and time in a normal combustion process vs. detonation. Note that the rate of pressure rise vs. time ...