(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 ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) have the potential to be ... computer model of RDRE that will simulate the chemistry of fuel and air interactions in combustion along with representations ...

The detonation wave combusts the fuel-air mixture at supersonic speeds and at near-constant volume—a more efficient process than current jet engines in which combustion occurs as a subsonic ...

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.

Pratt & Whitney will accelerate its work on rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology ... this could free up space for more fuel, sensors and payloads. In March 2022 P&W announced that it ...

Rotating detonation engines differ from traditional turbojet ... These attributes create room for additional fuel, sensors and payload, and can enable longer-range for vehicles that are critical ...