(Image credit: DARPA) The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) is an advanced propulsion concept that has drawn significant attention for its potential to enhance fuel efficiency and thrust while ...

A novel type of jet propulsion, a rotating detonation engine (RDE), has been successfully tested by Pratt & Whitney. The development could be highly significant for the U.S. military, with RDE ...

This is why interest in detonation engines for both gas turbines in the energy sector and for rocket propulsion applications has increased so significantly in recent years. Particularly promising is ...

Earlier improvements revolved around pumping in more fuel, or forced air intakes ... and he takes a sidestep towards the more controllable detonation engine. His latest experiment (video, embedded ...

Octane rating is defined as a fuel's ability to resist knocking or pinging during combustion, which is caused by premature ...

Pratt & Whitney has concluded a series of tests on its new rotating detonation engine (RDE), conducted in collaboration with ...

The world’s first oblique detonation engine (ODE) powered by standard aviation ... achieved sustained oblique detonation waves using RP-3 jet fuel, a common commercial kerosene.