1D modeling of a Rotating Detonation Engine

This project involves the development of a skeleton of an open source, simplified model for a rotating detonation engine (RDE), using existing models, and coding it in a way that makes it simple to access potential performance, using realistic thermodynamics, and some empirical experimental knowledge.

Fundamentals can be found in the papers below:

[1] Sousa, Jorge and Braun, James and Paniagua, Guillermo, Development of a fast evaluation tool for rotating detonation combustors, Appl. Math. Model. 52 (2017) 42-52

[2] Sousa, Jorge and Paniagua, Guillermo and Collado- Morata, Elena Thermodynamic analysis of a gas turbine engine with a rotating detonation combustor, Applied Energy 195 (2017) 247–256

Requirements: good understanding of compressible flow, interest in propulsion, good ability in coding in python, C++ and or Julia.