Detonation Control for Propulsion

Jiun-Ming LI is currently a Senior Research Scientist of the Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore and the leading researcher of the Hypersonics and Detonation Propulsion Group. Dr. Li studied for his B. Eng. degree at Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan and received his M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from NCKU. Before joining the Temasek Laboratories, he was Visiting Scholar at the Aerodynamics Research Center, the University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A. His research interests are detonation physics and detonation propulsion applications, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy for fuel/combustion diagnostics, and studies on nanosecond pulse and AC DBD plasma actuators for flow control. He is a Member of AIAA. Chiang Juay TEO received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently an Associate Professor at the NUS Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches core modules, technical electives and General Education Modules related to Fluid Mechanics. His research interests include thermal-fluids, microfluidics, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics and aerospace propulsion. He currently conducts research on the use of superhydrophobic surfaces for reducing flow resistance in microfluidic applications, the use of chaotic advection for heat transfer augmentation in microchannel heat sinks, Wing-In-Ground craft aerodynamics, flow cavitation, Detonation Engines and cross flow fans for Unmanned Air Vehicles.

1. Performance of Rotating Detonation Engines for Air Breathing Applications.- 2. Development of Gasturbine with Detonation Chamber.- 3. Flow Structure in Rotating Detonation Engine with Separate Supply of Fuel and Oxidizer: Experiment and CFD.- 4. Application of Detonation Waves to Rocket Engine Chamber.- 5. Numerical Simulation on Rotating Detonation Engine: Effects of Higher-Order Scheme.- 6. Review on the Research Progresses in Rotating Detonation Engine.- 7. Continuous Detonation Engine Researches at Peking University.- 8. Pulse Detonation Cycle at Kilohertz Frequency.- 9. On the Investigation of Detonation Re-initiation Mechanisms and the Influences of the Geometry Confinements and Mixture Properties.