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Power/Thermal Interaction within an Adaptive Turbine Engine

DeSomma, Andrew K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1552918656351752

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2019, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME), Wright State University, Mechanical Engineering.
Usually power take off (PTO) with a two-spool turbofan engine has been accomplished via the high pressure (HP) shaft and bleed air from the high-pressure compressor (HPC). The PTO is used to run various aircraft components such as generators and hydraulic pumps, which also produce waste heat. To better understand the coupled transient nature of balancing engine thrust, power take off and thermal management, a transient variable cycle three stream turbofan engine model has been developed to investigate the integrated behavior. The model incorporates many dynamic features including a third-stream heat exchanger as a heat sink for thermal management and HP/LP shaft PTO. This paper describes a method of controlling HPC surge margin and maintaining the desired thrust while extracting power using both the HP and LP spools. The transient interactions as both PTO and 3rd stream heat rejection are simultaneously applied to the transient variable cycle engine model utilizing different control effectors were investigated. The rate of transient heat rejection was found to impact surge margin. Rapidly applied heat loads caused larger surge margin transients than heat loads applied more gradually despite the same maximum heat rejection. Optimal PTO profiles between the LP and HP shaft to minimize the amount of fuel used for a given PTO amount and flight envelope were also investigated. Finally, a notional mission was simulated with varying flight parameters and dynamic PTO based on optimal PTO profiles along with heat generation and afterburner. The controls were found to be sufficient to successfully run the mission however such simplified controls could induce numerical instabilities in certain mission profiles. This shows that while these simple controls are sufficient for these notional test runs more sophisticated controls will be necessary for a proper generic engine model.
Rory Roberts, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
George Huang, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Mitch Wolff, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
94 p.
Aerospace Engineering; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Systems Design
Dynamic effects; Power Thermal Interaction; Adaptive Turbine Engine; Power Take Off; Turbofan Engine; Simulink Model; Systems modeling; Controls;

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  • DeSomma, A. K. (2019). Power/Thermal Interaction within an Adaptive Turbine Engine [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1552918656351752

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DeSomma, Andrew. Power/Thermal Interaction within an Adaptive Turbine Engine. 2019. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1552918656351752.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DeSomma, Andrew. "Power/Thermal Interaction within an Adaptive Turbine Engine." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1552918656351752

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© 2019, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Power/Thermal Interaction within an Adaptive Turbine Engine by Andrew K. DeSomma is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Wright State University and OhioLINK.