Shock tubes

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Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:23 am

Does anyone have any knowledge, or preferably experience with shock tubes or pulse detonation engines?

I'm looking to build a PDE (for the foreseeable future, manually operated, i.e. only operating for one cycle at a time) operating on propane/air with a Shchelkin spiral. Hydrogen/air or hydrogen/oxygen would be feasible on a small scale.

At this stage it will serve no practical purpose.
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Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:51 am

Here you have an ignitor!

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Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:10 pm

IIRC, pulse detonations use more energetic ignition sources.
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Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:57 pm

Hope you have very good hearing protection and even more tolerant neighbors.... 'Cause a normal jet engine is pretty damned quiet compared to a PDE.

'Cause while I wasn't directly involved with the testing, I was maybe 1/2 mile away when this guy was being tested. Loud is not a strong enough word.

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