CONTINUOUS DETONATION WAVE ENGINE STUDIES FOR SPACE APPLICATION

plication is considered in the framework of French R&D and scienti¦c research. A CDWRE demonstrator and a dedicated test bench are de-signed by MBDA France. At ICARE-CNRS, theoretical and experimen-tal studies on the CDWRE internal processes are under progress. Two-dimensional (2D) Euler simulations of a CDWRE combustion chamber have been performed to investigate the e¨ect of geometrical and injec-tion parameters on the internal process and combustion chamber perfor-mance. An experimental study is prepared to investigate liquid oxygen breakup and vaporization in a helium §ow as well as detonation initiation and propagation in a spray of liquid oxygen/gaseous hydrogen.