In this paper, a novel unsteady fluid network simulation method to compute the air system of jet engine was coded to predict the characteristics of pressure, temperature and mass flow rate of the flow and the temperat...In this paper, a novel unsteady fluid network simulation method to compute the air system of jet engine was coded to predict the characteristics of pressure, temperature and mass flow rate of the flow and the temperature of the solid in the gas turbine engine. The fluid and solid areas are divided into the network comprised of branches and nodes, and the method solves transient mass, energy conservation equations at each node and momentum conservation equation at each branch by a newly deduced numerical method. With this method, to simulate complicated fluid and solid system in short time becomes possible. To verify the code developed, it has been applied to simulate a gas turbine model against the widely used commercial software Flowmaster. And the comparisons show that the two are in good agreement. Then the verified program is applied to the prediction of the characteristics of a designed turbine disk and air-cooling system associated to it, and useful information is obtained.展开更多
文摘In this paper, a novel unsteady fluid network simulation method to compute the air system of jet engine was coded to predict the characteristics of pressure, temperature and mass flow rate of the flow and the temperature of the solid in the gas turbine engine. The fluid and solid areas are divided into the network comprised of branches and nodes, and the method solves transient mass, energy conservation equations at each node and momentum conservation equation at each branch by a newly deduced numerical method. With this method, to simulate complicated fluid and solid system in short time becomes possible. To verify the code developed, it has been applied to simulate a gas turbine model against the widely used commercial software Flowmaster. And the comparisons show that the two are in good agreement. Then the verified program is applied to the prediction of the characteristics of a designed turbine disk and air-cooling system associated to it, and useful information is obtained.