The purpose of this work is to present a mathematical description of an ideal pulse-detonation-engine-based on parametric cycle analysis. The parametric cycle analysis is presented in terms of parameters similar to those for the well-known parametric cycle analyses for the ideal turbojet engine and the ideal ramjet engine. The performance characteristics of specific thrust, thrust-specific fuel consumption, fuel-to-air ratio, thermal efficiency, propulsive efficiency, and overall efficiency are presented as functions of the two variables: compressor total pressure ratio π c and freestream flight Mach number M o . This work provides algebraic equations that can be used conveniently to investigate the ideal pulse detonation engine performance as a function of a variety of input parameters. It is hoped that this work will aid in exploring the performance of the ideal pulse detonation engine from a big-picture perspective.


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    Title :

    Parametric Cycle Analysis of an Ideal Pulse Detonation Engine


    Contributors:
    Roux, J. A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2015-10-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English







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