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- (PDF)Schultz, Wintenberger, Shepherd Investigation of Deflagration to
Detonation Transition for Application to Pulse Detonation Engine
Ignition Systems 16th JANNAF Propulsion Meeting 1999
- (PDF) (PS) Schultz & Shepherd Validation of
Detailed reaction Mechanisms for Detonation Simulation GALCIT Report
FM99-5
- (PDF) (PS) Schultz & Shepherd Detonation Diffraction
Through a Mixture Gradient GALCIT Report FM00-1
- (PDF) W.M. Beltman and J.E. Shepherd.
Structural response of shells to shock and detonation loading.
Technical Report FM98-3, GALCIT, April 1998.
- (PDF) M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Effect of deflagration-to-detonation transition on pulse detonation engine impulse.
Technical Report FM00-3, GALCIT, July 2000.
- (PDF) J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, E. Wintenberger, J. E. Shepherd, and B. Sturtevant.
Small scale detonation studies: Direct impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations.
Technical Report FM00-5, GALCIT, July 2000.
- (PDF) J. M. Austin and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation in hydrocarbon fuel blends.
Technical Report FM99-6, GALCIT, July 2000.
- (PDF) J. E. Shepherd, E. Schultz, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, E.
Wintenberger, T. Chao.
Detonation Initiation, Diffraction, and Impulse.
presentation for 13 ONR Propulsion Conference, Aug 12, 2000.
- (PDF) Eric Schultz.
Detonation Diffraction Through an Abrupt Area Expansion.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2000.
- (PDF) T. Chao, E.
Wintenberger, J.E. Shepherd. On the Design of Pulse Detonation Engines.
Technical Report FM00-7, GALCIT, January 2001.
- (PDF) E
Wintenberger, JM Austin, M Cooper, S Jackson, and JE Shepherd.
"An analytical model for the impulse of a single-cycle pulse detonation
engine", AIAA 2001-3811, May 2001. See JPP preprint below and
revised spreadsheets and tables
on the Resources page for the most
recent model results.
- (PDF) M.
Cooper, S. Jackson, JM Austin, E. Wintenberger, and JE Shepherd "Direct experimental
impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations."
AIAA 2001-3812, May 2001. Tabulated data See
JPP preprint below for final presentation of data.
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JE Shepherd, JM Austin, T. Chao, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, S. Jackson, and M.
Cooper, "Detonation
Initiation, Propagation, and Structural Response"
Presentation for 14th ONR Propulsion Conference, Aug 9, 2001. Revised August 16, 2001 (Corrected CDL data point)
- (PDF) M. Grunthaner, S. I. Jackson,
J.E. Shepherd. Design and Construction of an Annular Detonation Initiator.
Technical Report FM01-5, GALCIT, September 2001.
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T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd "Fracture Response of Externally-Flawed
Cylindrical Shells to Internal Gaseous Detonation Loading". PVP2002-1491,
2002 AMSE Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Vancouver, BC, August 5-9, 2002.
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J. E. Shepherd, F. Pintgen, J. M. Austin,and C. A. Eckett, "The
Structure of the Detonation Front in Gases", AIAA 40th Aerospace
Sciences Meeting, January 2002. AIAA-2002-0773. Revised January 25,
2002.
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F. Pintgen, J. M. Austin, and J. E. Shepherd "Detonation Front
Structure: Variety and Characterization", Presented at the
International Colloquium on
Advances in Confined Detonations, Moscow, Russia, July 2-5, 2002.
Abstract published in: Advances in Confined Detonations, Ed. by G.D. Roy,
S.M. Frolov, R.J. Santoro, S.A. Tsyganov, Torus Press, Moscow, 2002,
pp. 68-72. Final paper published in: Confined Detonations and Pulse
Detonation Engines, Ed. by G.D. Roy,
S.M. Frolov, R.J. Santoro, S.A. Tsyganov, Torus Press, Moscow, 2003.
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S. I. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd, "Initiation Systems for Pulse
Detonation Engines", 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion
Conference and Exhibit July 7-10, 2002, Indianapolis, IN.
AIAA2002-2627. Revised July 27, 2002.
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M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd, "The Effect of Nozzles and Extensions on
Detonation Tube Performance", 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion
Conference and Exhibit July 7-10, 2002, Indianapolis,
IN. AIAA2002-2628. Revised July 27, 2002.
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D. H. Lieberman and J. E. Shepherd, "Detonation Initiation by Hot
Turbulent Jet for use in Pulse Detonation Engines", 38th
AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit July 7-10,
2002, Indianapolis, IN. AIAA2002-3909. Revised July 27, 2002.
- (PDF) JE
Shepherd, JM Austin, S. Jackson, M. Cooper, F. Pintgen, T. Chao, and
D. Lieberman "Detonation Initiation
and Propagation" Presentation for 15th ONR Propulsion Conference, Aug
5-7, 2002, Washington, DC.
- (PDF) J. M. Austin and J. E. Shepherd.
"Detonation in hydrocarbon fuel blends."
Combustion and Flame, 132(1-2), 79-90, 2003.
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F. Pintgen, C. A. Eckett, J. M. Austin, and J. E. Shepherd "Direct
Observation of Reaction Zone
Structure in Propagating Detonations",
in Combustion and Flame, 133(3), 211-229, 2003. (Revised February 8, 2003)
- (PDF) M.
Cooper, S. Jackson, JM Austin, E. Wintenberger, and JE Shepherd "Direct experimental
impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations." Preprint, see
final paper in Journal of Propulsion and Power, 18(5), 1033-1041, Sep-Oct 2002 .
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E. Wintenberger, JM Austin, M.
Cooper, S. Jackson, and JE Shepherd "An analytical model for the impulse of
a single-cycle pulse detonation tube. " Preprint, see final paper in
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 19(1), 22-38, Jan-Feb 2003.
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Response to comments by Heiser and Pratt. Preprint, see final version
in Journal of Propulsion and Power.
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Response to comments by Radelescu and Hanson. Preprint, see final
version in Journal of Propulsion and Power. Note:
the correct value of the "CJ Frozen" entry for C2H4+3O2+11.28N2 in Table 1
should be 1.253
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Errata with revised table and figures addressing chemical equilbrium issues
raised by Radulescu and Hanson. Preprint, see final version
in Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Revised spreadsheets and tables
can be found on the Resources page.
- (PDF) E
Wintenberger, JM Austin, M Cooper, S Jackson, and JE Shepherd.
"Impulse of a single pulse detonation
tube", GALCIT Report FM00-8, August 2002.
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E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd, "The
Performance of Steady Detonation Engines", AIAA 41th Aerospace
Sciences Meeting, January 2003. AIAA-2003-0714.
- (PDF) JE
Shepherd, JM Austin, S. Jackson, M. Cooper, and F. Pintgen
"Detonation Structure, Initiation, and Engine Component
Performance" Presentation for 16th ONR Propulsion Conference, June 9-11
2003, Los Angeles, CA.
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T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd "Comparison of Fracture Response of Preflawed
under Internal Static and Detonation Loading". PVP2003-1957,
2003 AMSE Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Cleveland, OH,
July 20-24, 2003. Published in PVP Vol. 460, 7th International Symposium
on Emerging Technologies in Fluids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure
Interactions - 2003
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E Wintenberger and JE Shepherd "A model for the performance of air-breathing pulse detonation engines" 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, AL. AIAA2003-4511.
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M Cooper, J Jewell, and JE Shepherd "Effect of a porous thrust surface on detonation
tube impulse" 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, AL. AIAA2003-4822.
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M Cooper and JE Shepherd "Experiments studying thermal cracking,
catalytic cracking, and pre-mixed partial oxidation of JP-10" 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, AL. AIAA2003-4867.
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SI Jackson, M Grunthaner, and JE Shepherd "Wave implosion as an initiation
mechanism for pulse detonation engines" 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, AL. AIAA2003-4820.
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JE Shepherd "Detonation: A look behind the front" Extended
abstract for plenary talk presented at 19th International
Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS), Hakone, Japan, July 28-August 1, 2003.
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E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd "Thermodynamic Analysis of Combustion Processes
for Propulsion Systems." 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Jan 5-8, Reno NV 2004.
AIAA2004-1033.
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M. Cooper, J. E. Shepherd, and F. Schauer "Impulse Correlation for Partially-Filled Tubes", preprint, Technical
J. Propulsion Power 20(5):947-950, 2004.
Preprint-see the journal for final version
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M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd "The effect of porous thrust surface on
transition to detonation and detonation tube impulse", J. Propulsion
Power 20(5):811-819, 2004. Preprint-see the journal for final
version
- (PDF) M. Cooper,
S. Jackson, D. Lieberman, F. Pintgen, JE
Shepherd, and E. Wintenberger,
"Detonation Structure, Initiation, and Engine Component
Performance" Presentation for 17th ONR Propulsion Conference, June 16-18
2004, Cambridge, MA.
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F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd. Quantitative analysis of reaction
front geometry in detonation. In G.D. Roy, A.A. Berlin, S.M. Frolov,
J.E. Shepherd, and S.A. Tsyganov, editors, International colloquium on
application of detonation for propulsion, pages 23-28. Torus Press,
Moscow, 2004.
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M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd "Effect of Transient Nozzle Flow on
Detonation Tube Impulse" 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion
Conference and Exhibit, July 11-14, 2004, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. AIAA2004-3914.
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S. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd "Detonation Initiation via Imploding
Shock Waves" 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion
Conference and Exhibit, July 11-14, 2004, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. AIAA2004-3919.
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"To the Question of Energy Use of Detonative Combustion" Translation of
a paper by Ya. B. Zel'dovich originally published in Russian in
Zhurnal tekhnicheskoi Fiziki (Journal of Technical Physics) 10 (17), 1940
pp. 1453-1461. Preprint, accepted for publication in JPP, 2006.
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E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd "A Model for the Performance of of air-breathing pulse detonation engines",
preprint, accepted to JPP, 2006.
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E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd "Thermodynamic Cycle Analysis for Propagating Detonations",
preprint, accepted to JPP, 2006.
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E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd "The Stagnation Hugoniot Analysis for Steady Combustion Waves in Propulsion Systems",
preprint, accepted for publication in JPP, 2006.
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D. L. Lieberman, J. E. Shepherd, F. Wang, J. Liu, and M. A. Gundersen
"Characterization of a Corona Discharge Initiator Using Detonation
Tube Impulse Measurements", 43nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and
Exhibit, January 10-13, 2005, Reno, NV, AIAA 2005-24455
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