Researchers advance detonation wave propulsion for hypersonic flight – Green Car Congress

Researchers from the University of Central Florida and the US Naval Research Laboratory have discovered an experimental configuration and flow conditions that generate a stabilized oblique detonation—a phenomenon that has the potential to revolutionize high-speed propulsion of the future. An open-access paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Future terrestrial and interplanetary travel will require high-speed flight and reentry in planetary atmospheres…

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