Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure

Rotating detonation has the potential to enhance the performance of turbine engines significantly. The detonation products generated by rotating detonation waves (RDWs) produce extreme temperatures. To mitigate thermal erosion of the RDC casing, a jet-cooling structure serves as an effective thermal...

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Main Authors: Rui Wang, Shengbing Zhou
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-08-01
Series:Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25007166
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description Rotating detonation has the potential to enhance the performance of turbine engines significantly. The detonation products generated by rotating detonation waves (RDWs) produce extreme temperatures. To mitigate thermal erosion of the RDC casing, a jet-cooling structure serves as an effective thermal protection mechanism. This paper combines numerical simulations and experiments to investigate the operating characteristics of a combustor within rotating detonation turbine engine (RDTE) equipped with a jet-cooling structure. Utilizing H2 as fuel, air is split at the inlet, one part enters the jet-cooling channel while the other part acts as an oxidizer entering the RDC. The study results show that mixing uniformity between air and H2 along the axial direction of the RDC generally indicates an upward trend. Four modes were obtained in the experiments: sawtooth wave, double-wave collision, single wave, and double wave. Among these, the single-wave mode exhibited the highest pressure-wave amplitude; furthermore, both the pressure and velocity of the RDW increased with rising equivalence ratio (ER) values. The results demonstrated that the jet-cooling structure can significantly reduce the gas temperature before entering the turbine, thereby verifying the feasibility of the RDTE with the jet-cooling structure.
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spelling doaj-art-2823fdbf63d24cf683ba8d15b14434432025-08-20T02:31:11ZengElsevierCase Studies in Thermal Engineering2214-157X2025-08-017210645610.1016/j.csite.2025.106456Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structureRui Wang0Shengbing Zhou1College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, ChinaCorresponding author.; College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, ChinaRotating detonation has the potential to enhance the performance of turbine engines significantly. The detonation products generated by rotating detonation waves (RDWs) produce extreme temperatures. To mitigate thermal erosion of the RDC casing, a jet-cooling structure serves as an effective thermal protection mechanism. This paper combines numerical simulations and experiments to investigate the operating characteristics of a combustor within rotating detonation turbine engine (RDTE) equipped with a jet-cooling structure. Utilizing H2 as fuel, air is split at the inlet, one part enters the jet-cooling channel while the other part acts as an oxidizer entering the RDC. The study results show that mixing uniformity between air and H2 along the axial direction of the RDC generally indicates an upward trend. Four modes were obtained in the experiments: sawtooth wave, double-wave collision, single wave, and double wave. Among these, the single-wave mode exhibited the highest pressure-wave amplitude; furthermore, both the pressure and velocity of the RDW increased with rising equivalence ratio (ER) values. The results demonstrated that the jet-cooling structure can significantly reduce the gas temperature before entering the turbine, thereby verifying the feasibility of the RDTE with the jet-cooling structure.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25007166Rotating detonation combustorTurbineJet-cooling structureDetonation-wave mode
spellingShingle Rui Wang
Shengbing Zhou
Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Rotating detonation combustor
Turbine
Jet-cooling structure
Detonation-wave mode
title Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
title_full Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
title_fullStr Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
title_full_unstemmed Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
title_short Study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet-cooling structure
title_sort study on a combustor of rotating detonation turbine engine with a jet cooling structure
topic Rotating detonation combustor
Turbine
Jet-cooling structure
Detonation-wave mode
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25007166
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