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Measurements of gas temperatures at 100 kHz within the annulus of a rotating detonation engine

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Cycle-resolved measurements of H2O temperatures and number densities taken within the detonation channel of a hydrogen—air rotating detonation engine (RDE) at a 100 kHz repetition rate using laser absorption spectroscopy are presented. The laser source used is an MEMS-tunable Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting laser which scans from 1330 to 1360 nm. Optical access into and out of the RDE is achieved using a dual-core fiber optic. Light is pitched into the RDE through a sapphire window via a single-mode core, retroreflected off the mirror-polished inner radius of the RDE annulus, and collected with the multi-mode fiber core. The resulting absorption spectra are used to determine gas temperatures as a function of time. These measurements allow characterization of the transient-temperature response of the RDE.

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Funding for this research was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under contract Nos. FA8650-10-C-2112 and FA8650-15-D-2580. The authors would like to thank Andrus Ionio of the Air Force Institute of Technology and Brian Sell and John Hoke of Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. for setting up and operating the rotating detonation engine. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited (88ABW-2015-5934).

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    Keith D. Rein & Sukesh Roy

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Engineering Dr, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Scott T. Sanders

  3. Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Dayton, 45433, USA

    Andrew W. Caswell, Frederick R. Schauer & James R. Gord

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Rein, K.D., Roy, S., Sanders, S.T. et al. Measurements of gas temperatures at 100 kHz within the annulus of a rotating detonation engine. Appl. Phys. B 123, 88 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6647-5

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