The creation of the first prototypes of a domestic detonation aircraft engine is possible in the next 5–7 years. This was announced by Dmitry Markovich, Director of the Institute of Thermophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since the cycle of creating gas turbines and aircraft engines is quite long, at least 5–7 years is the horizon when, I hope, prototypes will appear.
Markovich explained that there are now several scientific groups in Russia that are engaged in such developments — the Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics named after Academician Semenov in Moscow and the Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk.
There are serious groups working on the study and practical applications of detonation combustion. Some design bureaus have become interested in afterburner combustion chambers for defense applications, for military aviation, and I think that this technology has a chance to be implemented in the near future.
A detonation engine is a power plant in which fuel combustion occurs in shock waves approximately 100 times faster than with normal slow combustion.
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