Combustion Chamber Design for a Mach2 Pulse Detonation Engine

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This report describes a project to design a Combustion Chamber for a Mach2 Pulse Detonation Engine (PDE). The project was part of a larger undertaking to design build and fly a Mach2 PDE experiment. The Goal of the experiment was to determine the feasibility of multi-cycle detonative combustion at supersonic speeds. The experiment was launched as a payload on a Zuni rocket in October 2004. Other components of the PDE experiment not described in this report are as followsThe objectives of this project where as follows. Determine the conditions required for detonation at supersonic speeds. Design a combustion chamber that will allow multi-cycle detonation to occur. Manufacture the chamber components and integrate then with the remaining PDE experiment components. Conduct the flight experiment and retrieve combustion data. Determine the nature of combustion through analysis of the acquired data.Much of the experimental data found in PDE related literature points to the possibility of deto

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