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

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

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

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  3. Mach Number Effects on Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerators

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  4. 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

  5. Ram Accelerator Operation in Railed and Baffled Tubes

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen, Sizhe Liu

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Kirsten Wind Tunnel Flow Quality Assessment: 2018

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

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

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  14. Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator Operation with Inclined Baffles

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

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

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Experimental Investigation of a Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator

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

    Dr. Carl Knowlen