The next phase could involve using pulse detonation engines to address another pressing issue in combustion: afterburners for fighter aircraft. Today’s fighter engines simply spray aerosolized fuel ...

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 ...

A pulse detonation engine, or “PDE”, is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed because the mixture must be renewed in the ...

At a laboratory near Seattle and a test site in the California desert, Pratt & Whitney is exploring a new form of propulsion that could make the turbojet engine better — or make it obsolete. Within 10 ...

Ten projects selected on June 8 to receive funding through the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) Advanced Combustion Systems Program could lower costs and improve the performance of ...

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, ...

An international team of engineers that includes combustion experts from the University of Sydney's School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering are working on a revolutionary new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1960, The Physics, chemistry and dynamics of explosions (13 February 2012), pp. 740-773 (34 pages) ...