A Rotating Detonation Engine Would Revolutionize Rocket Launches

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Principal researcher's brother here, but if there's enough interest I could get him to show up :) He enjoys talking about the math. PR-E paper[1] and 240000fps video of engine ignition and wave formation[2]

[1] https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.0...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXSsd7uXjt8&feature=youtu.be

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