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  1. Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator Thrust Characteristics With Aluminum Projectiles

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  2. Coreless Combustor Operation in 10-mm and 25-mm Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  3. Baffled Tube Ram Accelerator Projectile Geometry Effects on Thrust

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  4. Operating Characteristics of a 10-mm Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  5. Pre-Ignition Propellant Mixing in Small Scale Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  6. Mach Number Effects on Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerators

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  7. The Kirsten Wind Tunnel at the University of Washington

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Adam Bruckner, Dr. Carl Knowlen, Sarah Musi

  8. Ram Accelerator Operation in Railed and Baffled Tubes

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen, Sizhe Liu

  9. Radial Injector Mixing Effects on Detonation Zone Position in Rotating Detonation Engine

    Article • August 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen, Malik Washington, Dr. James V Koch

  10. Influence of Injector-to-Annulus Area Ratio on Rotating Detonation Engine Operability

    Article • August 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. James V Koch, Dr. Carl Knowlen

  11. Kirsten Wind Tunnel Flow Quality Assessment: 2018

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  12. Design and Analysis of Rocket Ejectors with Experimental and Flight Test Validation

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  13. Operating Characteristics of a CH4/O2 Rotating Detonation Engine in a Backpressure Controlled Facility

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. James V Koch, Dr. Carl Knowlen, Malik Washington

  14. Rotating Detonation Engine Using a Wave Generator and Controlled Mixing

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, November 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen, Dr. James V Koch

  15. Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Baffled Tube Ram Accelerator Experiments

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  16. Thrusting Pressure and Supersonic Exhaust Velocity in a Rotating Detonation Engine

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  17. Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator Operation with Inclined Baffles

    Article • July 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  18. Transient computational fluid dynamic modeling of baffled tube ram accelerator

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  19. Theoretical and Experimental Consideration of the Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen, Jacob Boening

  20. Design and Experiments of a Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine: a Spinning Wave Generator and Modulated Fuel/Oxidizer Mixing

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. James V Koch, Dr. Carl Knowlen, Jacob Boening

  21. Experimental Investigation of a Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Carl Knowlen