Supersonic PDE thesis paper

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Supersonic PDE thesis paper

Post by heada » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:02 am

Abstract:

Future Navy Capabilities indicate the need for a supersonic cruise missile.
Therefore, there exists a need for a low cost, light-weight, and efficient means of supersonic propulsion. NPS has been developing the Pulse Detonation Engine, which in theory has a thermodynamic efficiency greater than 50% as compared to 35% for state of the art constant-pressure cycles currently in use in gas turbines/ramjets/scramjets.
Nonetheless, there are two major problems in the development of this engine. These are the increase of the propulsive efficiency by removing the oxygen-assisted initiator currently in use, and the reduction of internal total pressure losses caused by the highly constrictive internal flow-path geometry currently required to promote the deflagration to detonation transition (DDT). The aforementioned problems have been addressed and a viable design proposed through the implementation of a novel Transient Plasma Ignition system and novel split-flow path engine geometry as described in this work. Future work will concentrate on the development of a performance measurement test rig to experimentally assess the designs presented herein.

A very interesting read about how to increase efficiency of PDE engines so that they will achieve similar performance to turbojets and ramjets without additional oxygen that is currently needed.
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Supersonic PDE thesis paper

Post by Mark » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:35 pm

Some creative thinking in that article heada. Good food for thought.
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Post by heada » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:36 am

Mark,

I can't take credit for finding it. Bill Lubarsky asked for someone to read, sort and post several documents he has collected. I volunteered and this is just one of those documents. Credit for the find should go to Bill.

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Post by Bill Lubarsky » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:07 am

heada.

I just sent a CD containing over 500MB of files to Mike.
Eventually they will end up somewhere on the web site
in a searchable if not browsable form. They didn't download
with actual titles, usually just publication numbers.

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Post by Viv » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:00 pm

Mike Everman wrote:I'm looking for some sort of gallery/archive software now. I have got a lot of research to make available as well!
Mike, I have been looking at the wiki software and noticed it can use the PHPBB user database, I am still looking at it but if any one has any experience? could be a good fit for what we need.

PHP is due to go to V3.0 soon so I have not done much as I was waiting to get that out the way before I started a test site with a trial wiki load.

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Post by LINZ » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:40 pm

Heada
It's been a year since the projected completion date of this engine. Do you have any results?

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Post by heada » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:28 pm

It was a paper written by a naval student and not by me and so I don't have any results to give. You might try sending a request to the US Navy and ask if they have results from this thesis that they could share as they probably own all the information generated from a thesis by a Naval student.

Wish I could give more info.

-Aaron

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