(B2431) wrote:


From: "Keith Willshaw"

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

Hopefully not a detonation. That would be like slamming the piston face with a
sledge hammer. In fact it's a rapid combustion.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Most damned absolutely correct. It seems that damned near
everyone thinks otherwise.

I've heard supposedly experienced and knowledgeable mechanics say
"You'll see a power rise during detonation", when in fact the
powerful blasts of detonation are so shortlived that they produce
almost no useful energy. (lots of destructive energy though)
--

-Gord.