WHAT IS A RDE? A Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) is essentially a more compact and efficient method of creating thrust for a wide variety of military relevant systems. These mechanically simple engines have no moving parts making them less complex than gas turbine engines and therefore potentially lower cost and simpler to manufacture.

AFRL’s Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) program is developing more efficient, compact and stable combustor designs for Liquid Rocket Engines (LREs). The technology development approach integrates the state-of-the-art Modeling & …

AFRL RDE Research Interests • Interests span from fundamental to applied research • Analytical and experimental determination of RDE wave structure • Quantifying and expanding operational maps • Inlet conditions (pressures, temperatures, velocities) • Equivalence ratios • Reactants (including liquid fuel/air)

2018年7月9日 · AFRL has undertaken a num ber of experimental efforts to verify operation and tease out performance characteristics of RDREs. T est campaigns with full annular RDREs as well as laboratory...

WHAT IS A RDE? A Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) is essentially a more compact and efficient method of creating thrust for a wide variety of military relevant systems. These mechanically simple engines have no moving parts making them less complex than gas turbine engines and therefore potentially lower cost and simpler to manufacture.

Recent focus has shifted to RDE development for aerospace applications. In order to work with pulsed and rotating detonation phenomena, AFRL has set out to develop the facilities, diagnostics, modeling tools, and experience necessary to contribute and provide unique resources for the maturation of pressure-gain combustion technology.

afrl认为rde技术能够在反介入/区域拒止（a2/ad）环境中实现大规模生产，打击高价值时敏目标，且具有低成本、高超声速、易部署的特征，是一项颠覆性的发动机技术。

2023年11月16日 · AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate is the Department of the Air Force's Center of Expertise for directed energy and optical technologies. Located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico , the Directorate develops and transitions technologies in four core technical competencies: laser systems, high power electromagnetics, weapons modeling and ...

The rotating detonation engine, or RDE — a device that exploits continuous detonative combustion in a thin annular channel — is the main focus of research, and several critical advances were made in 2017.

2020年9月16日 · 在美空军研究实验室（afrl）公布attam倡议4年后，为响应最新出现的威胁和紧急能力需求，在该倡议最重要全新发动机构型的名单中，首次出现了旋转爆震发动机（rde）。