I’m actually a mechanical engineer by training and I follow valveless pulsejets, ramjet and pulse detonation engine technology for myself. Getting a “shock wave” rotor to do what it should theoretically do is always a bear. If it were simple, I’d already have a few patents.
Two questions:
Low end torque
and
RPMs...........
This is another not-so-new idea in internal combustion engines: http://www.bourke-engine.com/
Wouldn’t it require high RPMs before the “shockwave” could be obtained??.. like spinning up a jet engine before ignition ???
Isn’t this just a variation on a turbine engine?
The thing that raised my eyebrows is the fact that the people working on it were given a grant by the government...I guess Id work on anything if I was given a grant.
I think that’s why that propose it to recharge hybrids. The shock wave returning from the compression on the wall would have a narrow range of speed and that would force the rotor to run in a narrow range of RPM.