A Novel Approach for Aircraft Engine Modeling Considering the Energy Accumulation Effect Based on a Variable Mass System Thermodynamics Method

Huazhao Dong and Wenlei Lian ()
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Huazhao Dong: Key Laboratory of Thermal Management and Energy Utilization of Aviation Vehicles, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Wenlei Lian: Key Laboratory of Thermal Management and Energy Utilization of Aviation Vehicles, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 24, 1-13

Abstract: The use of modeling and simulation methods for engines is considered an important part of the aircraft design process. However, the traditional approach is complicated and time-consuming. In this work, a facile, novel engine dynamic simulation method was proposed, combining the effects of mass and energy flow accumulation based on the thermodynamics of the variable mass system. The typical twin-spool axis flow turbojet engine was selected as the simulation model and the dynamic simulation of the three-stage aircraft flight process was further carried out. The simulation results confirm that the new approach can greatly enhance simulation speed and is about 28 times faster than the traditional method. Besides simulation speed, accuracy has also been improved compared with the current simulation approaches. For example, during a 9 s acceleration process in which the Mach number increases from 0.6 to 0.8, errors of up to 0.473 s in time delay and up to 0.66% in energy were eliminated. During a 6 s acceleration process, 0.624 s of the time delay error was eliminated. This work plays a positive role in the accurate and rapid simulation of aircraft engines and, more importantly, lays the foundation for the simulation of other systems involving mass and energy flow.

Keywords: engine dynamic simulation; thermodynamics of variable mass systems; component-level model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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