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  1. Novel Helium Turbo Compressor for Small Modular Reactor

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

    Frank Lu

  2. Preliminary Study of Shock/Boundary-Layer Interactions Generated by a Sharp Fin Mounted Above a Flat Plate

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

    Frank Lu, Dustin Otten

  3. A Study of Detonation Driven Shock Tube Using the Method of Characteristics

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

    Frank Lu, Ananthkumar Jayamani

  4. On the Three-Dimensional Separation in Shock/Boundary-Layer Interactions at Swept Corners

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

    Frank Lu, Rohit Pulimidi

  5. Performance Sensitivities of Rotating Detonation Engines Installed onto Waverider Forebodies

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, March 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  6. Vortex Generators in a Two-Dimensional External-Compression Supersonic Inlet

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

    Frank Lu

  7. Incipient Separation in Laminar Ramp-Induced Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions

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

    Frank Lu, James Ray Grisham

  8. Low-Order Parametric Analysis of a Rotating Detonation Engine in Rocket Mode

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, November 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  9. Multi-Port Filling of Pulsed Detonation Engines

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

    Frank Lu

  10. Exergy analysis of pulse detonation engine with linear power generator

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

    Frank Lu

  11. Study of Shock Wave Transmission by Detonation Wave Interaction with Contact Discontinuity

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

    Frank Lu

  12. Vortex Generators in a Streamline-Traced, External-Compression Supersonic Inlet

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

    Frank Lu

  13. Effectiveness of Detonation Engines for Power Production

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

    Frank Lu

  14. Flow Rate Measurement Method for Gaseous Fuel Injection for Pulse Detonation Engines

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

    Frank Lu

  15. Introduction: Special Section on Pressure Gain Combustion

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

    Frank Lu

  16. Force Measurements and Computational Validation of a Transonic Wing-Tip Flow

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, November 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    James Ray Grisham, Michael G Werling, Frank Lu

  17. Analytical Model of Shock Dynamics in Pulse Detonation Engine Nozzles

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

    Frank Lu

  18. Preliminary Parametric Analysis of a Rotating Detonation Engine by Analytical Methods

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

    Frank Lu

  19. Vortex Generators in a Two-Dimensional, External-Compression Supersonic Inlet

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

    Frank Lu

  20. Unsteady Thrust Measurement for Pulse Detonation Engines

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  21. Progress and Challenges in the Development of Detonation Engines for Propulsion and Power Production

    Article • Applied Mechanics and Materials, January 2016, Trans Tech Publications

    Frank Lu

  22. Separation Topology of Microramp Vortex Generator Controlled Flow at Mach Number 2.5

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, November 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Qin Li, Frank Lu, Chaoqun Liu

  23. A New Method to Predict Flow Rates of Gaseous Fuels Injected Intermittently for Pulse Detonation Engines

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  24. Numerical Study of Pulse Detonation Engine Nozzle and Exhaust Flow Phenomena

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  25. Single and Multiple-Point Analysis of Velocity Fluctuations in a Detonation-Turbulence Interaction

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  26. Observations on the Mean and Turbulent Wake of a Micro-Ramp Array

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  27. Smoked Foil on Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, May 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Kung-Ming Chung, Frank Lu

  28. Study of Unsteady Thrust Characteristics of Pulse Detonation Engines

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  29. Performance Model for Fully and Partially Filled Pulse Detonation Engine

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  30. A Comparison Between Local h-Refinement and a Novel r-Refinement Method

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    James Ray Grisham, Frank Lu

  31. Rotating Detonation Wave Propulsion: Experimental Challenges, Modeling, and Engine Concepts

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, September 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  32. Unsteady Thrust Measurement for Pulse Detonation Engine

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  33. Multifidelity Simulation of a Dual Mode Scramjet Compression System using Coupled NPSS and FLUENT Codes

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu

  34. Experimental Study of High-Frequency Fluidic Valve Injectors for Detonation Engine Applications

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Frank Lu