A Jet Engine With No Moving Parts!

I am currently working on a no moving parts jet engine, that will be unlike those that have come before. In this blog, I will describe to you my needs, intentions, and my activities as I go on this quest.

This engine will have no moving parts, be continuously flowing, and capable of a static start. No-moving-parts engines in the past have either relied on pulsation (pulse jets), or needed some initial velocity before they could start effectively (ram jets).

For the last year I have been building physical models and running Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations. Currently, I am writing software to mechanize the design process of modeling parts and simulating flow through them, for the purpose of mechanizing discovery.

Openness has been key to this entire discovery process and its acceleration. I have a Community of Directors composed of specialists in Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Management. I share my day to day activities with them. This type of organization has led to amazing amounts of help. My success with such a group is why I am opening up my activities to the world at large through this journal.

Hans von Ohain

This quest has been far from easy, and there have been many times where developing the jet engine has seemed impossible. It helps to know that the father of the jet engine Hans von Ohain originally began with the intention to make a no moving parts jet engine that could continuously flow. Out of expediency he switched to turbomachinery, but later in his career he returned to the idea with a US Patent: US4689950.

His patent outlined a process by which viscous rotating eddies pumped fresh air into the engine. This was essentially a counter-flowing momentum exchanger (as opposed to a co-flowing momentum exchanger, better known as an ejector).

At the beginning of this quest, I was ignorant that there were attempts to make a continuously flowing jet engine with no moving parts. But the work of a physicist like von Ohain, who fathered the jet engine in Germany, is a comforting historical companion to my current labor.

I have endeavored for a year to create this engine, and each step provides the educational context, both technical, communal, and logistical, for the achievement of what will be an astounding device. If this post intrigues you, feel free to email me. I assure you I'm a very friendly person.