Here is the overall PGC schedule at a glance. For attendees, I hope you all enjoy the virtual Propulsion and Energy Forum this year, and especially the Pressure Gain Combustion part of the program! All times are Eastern Daylight Time, the program on the website should have the times for your local time zone.
PGC-01, Monday 11:15 am, Challenges and Successes of Harnessing Detonation-Based Combustion for Propulsion Applications Hosts: Douglas Schwer and Mirko Gamba
- Kazhikathra Kailasanath (Kailas)
- Thomas Kaemming
- Chris Brophy
- Ratiba Zitoun
- Venkat Tangirala
- Jiro Kasahara
PGC-02, Monday 1:00 pm, Diagnostics and Device Measurement Chairs: Myles Bohon and Joshua Gray
- Data-driven Regression Analysis of Performance Parameters in Rotating Detonation Engines, Tyler Pritschau
- Heat Transfer Measurements in an Elevated Pressure RDRE Combustor, Daniel Micka
- Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Scaling using Variable Annular Width Geometries, Blaine Bigler
- Prediction of Detonation-Induced Disturbances Propagating Upstream into Inlets of Rotating Detonation Combustors, Alexander Feleo
- Time Resolved Flow Field in the Radial Plane of an Aerospike Integrated with a Rotating Detonation Combustor, Ajay Agrawal
PGC-03 Monday 1:00 pm, Modeling and Simulation Chairs: Venke Sankaran and Venkat Tangirala
- Large-Eddy Simulations of Methane-Oxygen Combustion in a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, Pinaki Pal
- Synthetic Laser Diagnostics of Simulated RDRE Exhaust, Mathias Ross
- Comparison of Hydrogen Combustion Mechanisms for Unsteady Shock-Induced Combustion with Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) Analysis, Min-Seon Jo
- Supersonic Combustion Heat Flux in an RDE Model, Foluso Ladeinde
PGC-04 Monday 2:30 pm, Injectors and Inlets Chairs: Daniel Paxson and Thomas Kaemming
- A Method for Modeling Dynamic Injector Response in a Rotating Detonation Combustor, Joseph Meadows
- Rotating detonation of hypergolic space- storable rocket propellants using an additive injector design, Anil Nair
- Parametric Evaluation of RDE Inlet Performance using a Reduced-Order Model, Clinton Bedick
- Thermodynamic Performance Results for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine with Distributed Heat Addition using Cantera, Jason Burr
PGC-05 Tuesday 11:15 am, Hollow and Flow-through Rotating Detonation Engines Chairs: Jiro Kasahara and Aaron Glaser
- Study of Cylindrical Rotating Detonation Engine with Propellant Injection Cooling System, Kosei Ota
- Performance of Centerbody-less Rotating Detonation Combustors for an RDE Concept, Douglas Schwer
- Rotating Detonation Mode Identification Via Cross-Correlation and SPOD Through Ethylene/Air in Hollow Combustors, Jorge Betancourt
- Tomographic Imaging of Rotating Detonations in a Hollow Combustor, Alec Gaetano
- Rotating Detonations through Hydrogen-Air Mixtures in a Flow-through Combustor with Varying Core Air Flow, Rachel Wiggins
PGC-06 Tuesday 11:15 am, PGC Applications 1 Chairs: A Koichi Hayashi and Gregory Meholic
- A Review Towards the Design Optimization of High Performance Additively Manufactured Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Injectors, Thomas Teasley
- Use of a Partially Pre-Mixed Injection Scheme and Pre-Detonator in a Small Scale Rotating Detonation Engine, Nathan Fiorino
- Experimental Study on Truncated Conical Rotating Detonation Engine with Diverging Flows, Kotaro Nakata
- Design and testing of a small-scale laboratory rotating detonation engine running on ethylene-oxygen, Ralf Deiterding
- Elevated Inlet Temperature Effects on the Operation of a Rotating Detonation Combustor, Alexander Feleo
PGC-07 Tuesday 1:00 pm, Detonation Physics 1 Chairs: Kareem Ahmed and Shikha Redhal
- Counter-PropagatingWave Study in Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines, Armani Batista
- A Method for Determining Hydrodynamic Thickness from a Pressure Trace, Applied to Mixtures of Ethylene and Nitrous Oxide, Mitchell Hageman
- Investigation of Compressible Turbulent Hydrocarbon Fast Flames to DDT, Rachel Hytovick
- Experimental investigation of the unsteady wall heat flux during a self-sustained detonation propagation, Hugo Quintens
PGC-08 Tuesday 1:00 pm, Non-Annular Rotating Detonation Engines Chairs: Doug Schwer and Ajay Agrawal
- Numerical Optimization of Aerospike Design for a Disk Rotating Detonation Combustor, Ajay Agrawal
- Wave Dynamics, Power Production and Combustion Instabilities of a Disk-Shaped Pressure Gain Combustor, Xin Huang
- 3D numerical study on flow field in disc-RDE, A Koichi Hayashi
- Rotating Detonation Engine with a Tapered Combustion Channel, Marc Polanka
- Operating Characteristics of Non-Circular Tri-Arc Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), Jeong Yeol Choi
PGC-09 Tuesday 2:30 pm, PGC Applications 2 Chairs: Bill Hargus and Ephraim Gutmark
- Comparison Study of Instantaneous Oscillatory Behavior Between RDREs and Air-Breathing RDEs, Taha Rezzag
- A Computational Study of H2-Air Annular Rotating Detonation Combustor Operability, Anthony Dean
- Characteristic Timescales for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines, John Bennewitz
- Validation of Experimental Evidence for H2/O2 Powered Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, Robert Burke
PGC-10 Wednesday 11:15 am, Detonation Physics 2 Chairs: Chiping Li and Ratiba Zitoun
- Numerical Investigation of Combustion Wave Modes in Hydrogen-Air Shuttling Transverse Combustion, Ruiqin Shan
- Numerical Study on NOx Emissions from a Synthetic Biofuel for Applications in Detonation-based Combustors, Ashlesh Dahake
- NOx Emissions from Jet A-air Detonations, Karhikeyan Iyer
- Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) Analysis of the Detonation Cell-Bifurcation Process, Jaehoon Ryu
PGC-12 Wednesday 12:00 noon, Pressure Gain Combustion is not just Rotating Detonation Engines! Hosts: Douglas Schwer and Craig Nordeen
- Daniel Paxson
- Razi Nalim
- Marc Bellenoue
- Heikki Salminen
PGC-13 Wedneday 2:30 pm, PGC Applications 3 Chairs: Donald Ferguson and Andrew Sisler
- Experimental Study of a Racetrack-Type Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine with Shear-Coaxial Injectors Run on Gaseous Methane and Oxygen, James Venters
- Comparison of Valved-Pulsejet Combustion Operation Using Ethanol and Gasoline Fuels, Mohamad Ghulam
- Effects of Inlet Area Ratio on Operability of an Axial Air Inlet Rotating Detonation Combustor, Joshua Shepard
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Douglas Schwer
R & D Engineer
Naval Research Lab
Washington DC
(202)767-3615
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