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Improving Reduced-Order Rotating Detonation Engine Models with Data Assimilation and Machine Learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Rotating detonation engines (RDEs) exhibit strongly nonlinear, multiscale wave dynamics that set the observed thermal field. High-fidelity simulations (DNS/LES) resolve these structures but remain computationally prohibitive, while low-order models such as the one-dimensional Koch-Kutz model capture circumferential wave motion yet lack the expressivity for high-frequency content. We use continuous data assimilation (nudging) to synchronize the Koch-Kutz solver with processed high-fidelity temperature data, introducing the prediction-observation mismatch as a relaxation source in the conserved

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