Research Article

Combustion Characteristics in Rotating Detonation Engines

Table 1

Air mass flow rate, combustion mode, and RDW velocity for different equivalence ratios at the hydrogen mass flow rate 10 g/s.

Air flow (g/s)Equivalence ratioCombustion modeRDW velocity (m/s)

724.78Deflagration and diffusive combustionNA
1033.35Deflagration and diffusive combustionNA
1352.56MCRDWsNA
1751.97MCRDWs970
2151.60MCRDWs949
2551.35MCRDWs959
2861.21MCRDWs916
3500.99MCRDWs872
3980.87MCRDWs659
4300.8MCRDWs594
4690.74LPDNA
5100.68LPDNA
5410.64SRDW1210
5730.60LPDNA
6050.57SRDW1222
6360.54SRDW1222
6760.51SRDW1215
7080.49SRDW1208
7400.47SRDW1194