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Pulse Detonation Engines (PDE's)
There's an article on Pulse Detonation Engines at:
http://www.aerotechnews.com/SpaceAnd...y.htm#Space005 How much potential do PDE's have? Will they ever be more than a laboratory curiousity? |
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"Eric Moore" There's an article on Pulse Detonation Engines at: http://www.aerotechnews.com/SpaceAnd...y.htm#Space005 How much potential do PDE's have? Will they ever be more than a laboratory curiousity? Wasn't the German V1 buzz bomb powered by a PDE pulse jet? Perhaps a crude one but still a pulse detonation engine of sorts. Ed Majden |
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Bernardz wrote:
In article x6T%b.633685$X%5.440608@pd7tw2no, says... "Eric Moore" There's an article on Pulse Detonation Engines at: http://www.aerotechnews.com/SpaceAnd...y.htm#Space005 How much potential do PDE's have? Will they ever be more than a laboratory curiousity? Wasn't the German V1 buzz bomb powered by a PDE pulse jet? Perhaps a crude one but still a pulse detonation engine of sorts. Ed Majden Yes. Nope. Pulse-burn. Much less efficient. -- Mankind's future is in space. Observations of Bernard - No 48 |
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"Grantland" Nope. Pulse-burn. Much less efficient. Symantics! It was a pulse jet! Bomarc SAM was a Ram jet and operated on a different principal but was quite effective as a propulsion system after getting up to speed by solid booster on the B-model. Ed |
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"Ed Majden" wrote:
"Grantland" Nope. Pulse-burn. Much less efficient. Symantics! It was a pulse jet! Ed Nope. And what's a ramjet got to do with anything? Another clumsy hoopster. Grantland |
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"Ed Majden" wrote in
news:x6T%b.633685$X%5.440608@pd7tw2no: Wasn't the German V1 buzz bomb powered by a PDE pulse jet? Perhaps a crude one but still a pulse detonation engine of sorts. Ed Majden That's where the "buzz" came from! 8-) -- Jim Yanik jyanik-at-kua.net |
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If this PDE research pans out, what would such an engine be used on?
A high-speed, high-altitude cruise missile (Something like FastHawk or ARRMD)? An SR-71 replacement (possibly manned, but probably not)? The first stage of a two stage reusuable space launch system? Something else? |
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On 29 Feb 2004 18:57:36 -0800, (Eric Moore)
wrote: If this PDE research pans out, what would such an engine be used on? A high-speed, high-altitude cruise missile (Something like FastHawk or ARRMD)? An SR-71 replacement (possibly manned, but probably not)? The first stage of a two stage reusuable space launch system? Something else? There are significant problems to using PDEs as a propulsive source. The magnitude of the shockwaves produced is extremely high as are the levels of vibration. A craft using such a power-plant will need some very special attention paid to the acoustic and physical isolation of the engine. -- you can contact me via http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/ |
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"Bruce Simpson" wrote in message ... On 29 Feb 2004 18:57:36 -0800, (Eric Moore) There are significant problems to using PDEs as a propulsive source. The magnitude of the shockwaves produced is extremely high as are the levels of vibration. A craft using such a power-plant will need some very special attention paid to the acoustic and physical isolation of the engine. Hmmm The British edition of scrap heap challenge recently had a program in which teams had to build a jet propelled car. The winner built a pulse jet and the 'high tech' isolation of engine from vehicle seemed to consist of welding the bugger to the frame though there was lots of duct tape in view Fact is almost every motor car on the road runs with a pulse detonation engine, its just that the pulse drives a piston rather than being used for jet effect. Keith |
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