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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2022
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Arin Elspeth Lastufka Cross, Waterford, NY (US);
Krishnakumar Venkatesan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A combined cycle propulsion system for a flight vehicle includes a compressor-fed combustion engine, and a multi-mode supersonic engine. The multi-mode supersonic engine includes an adjustable inlet section, a combustion section arranged downstream of the adjustable inlet section and including a first combustor portion having at least one rotating detonation combustor and a second combustor portion having a supersonic combustion type combustor, and an adjustable exhaust nozzle section arranged downstream of the combustion section. The at least one rotating detonation combustor functions as a pilot for the supersonic combustion type combustor.