Abstract: Pressure gain combustors (PGC) exploit either their isochoric or detonative combustion increasing the theoretical thermal efficiency of a gas turbine cycle. On this basis, a constant-volume combustor (CVC) is developed ...

Abstract: Inflight shutdown of one engine for twin-engine helicopters has proven beneficial for fuel consumption. A new flight mode is then considered, in which one engine is put into sleep mode while the second engine runs at nominal ...