A novel type of jet propulsion, a rotating detonation engine (RDE), has been successfully tested by Pratt & Whitney. The ...
The fuel injection ignites a flame-like detonation wave that travels around the ring for as long as fuel is injected. The ...
Pratt & Whitney is planning further development of rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology following “positive test ...
The Rotating Detonation Engine being developed by Pratt & Whitney has no moving parts, which reduces complexity and costs, and could help enable ...
Pratt & Whitney will accelerate its work on rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology, as its programme to develop the ...
Pratt & Whitney has concluded a series of tests on its new rotating detonation engine (RDE), conducted in collaboration with ...
This is why interest in detonation engines for both gas turbines in the energy sector and for rocket propulsion applications has increased so significantly in recent years. Particularly promising is ...
However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine relies on an ...
However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine relies on an ...
Rotating Detonation Engines First developed in the 1950s at the University of Michigan, these rocket engines use powerful and chaotic detonations, self-propagating thanks to hypersonic shockwaves ...
Categories include pulse detonation engines, rotating detonation engines and standing wave, or oblique wave detonation engines (OWDEs), and while these are still all at experimental stages ...