Advances in Detonative Propulsion (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 214

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Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: oblique detonation engine; detonative propulsion; supersonic combustion; scramjets; high-enthalpy shock tunnel; high-temperature gas dynamics; hypersonic aerodynamics and aerothermal dynamics
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School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: combustion and flow; detonation; two-phase flow; low-carbon fuel; optimization; power and energy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Detonative propulsion represents the new generation of hypersonic propulsion techniques. Research in this field is booming, and many advances have been made globally in recent years. This Special Issue aims to publish these cutting-edge research results to promote the development of detonative propulsion and the cooperation of researchers in this field.

The topics for this Special Issue are broad, including (but not limited to):

  • Oblique detonation engines;
  • Rotating detonation engines;
  • Pulsed detonation engines;
  • Shock-induced supersonic combustion;
  • Detonation-assisted scramjets;
  • Propulsive performance analysis of detonation engines;
  • The fundamental physics of gaseous detonation and multiphase detonation;
  • The design of detonation engines;
  • Other research related to detonative propulsion techniques.

We invite authors to contribute new research results to this Special Issue.

Dr. Yunfeng Liu
Prof. Dr. Zhiwu Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • oblique detonation engine
  • rotating detonation engine
  • pulsed detonation engine
  • shock-induced supersonic combustion
  • detonation-assisted scramjets
  • propulsive performance analysis
  • gaseous detonation
  • multiphase detonation

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