A multipassage wave rotor simulation is being used to investigate transient wave rotor behavior. Preliminary results indicate that the wave rotor is stable and well behaved even when subjected to severe transient input. Furthermore, the wave rotor response time is very short when compared with conventional turbomachinery. Schematic of transient wave rotor simulation. To study this, we modified the one-dimensional simulation to include simple combustion kinetics.
Results indicate that the concept is feasible.