Abstract
The University of Central Florida invention is a design methodology for rotating injectors in engines that use hydrogen and oxygen detonations. The invention is unique in that the injection scheme is universal for rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technologies, rather than for just a specific hardware architecture. As such, this injector assembly is not just applicable to the hydrogen and oxygen propellant injectors for this specific RDRE but for all future RDREs.
Stage of Development
Prototype available.
Benefit
Conducive to the proper mixing and detonability of hydrogen and oxygen propellantsCan increase efficiency 25 percent or moreMarket Application
Future rotating injector designsPublications
Experimental
evidence of H2/O2 propellants powered rotating detonation waves, Combustion
and Flame, Vol. 214, 2020, p136-138, ISSN 0010-2180, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.12.031.
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