NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF AIRCRAFT HYDRAULIC SYSTEM BASED ON THERMAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

A mathematical model of principal elements of the aircraft hydraulic system is presented based on the heat transfer theory. The dynamic heat transfer process of the hydraulic oil and the pump shells within an aircraft hydraulic system are analyzed by the difference method. A kind of means for the prediction to variational trends of the aircraft hydraulic system temperature is provided during operation. The numerical prediction and simulation under the operational conditions are presented for ground trial running and the decelerated operation in flight. Computational results show that there is a good coincidence between the experimental data and the numerical predictions.

Thermal-hydraulic modeling and analysis of hydraulic system by pseudo-bond graph

To increase the efficiency and reliability of the thermodynamics analysis of the hydraulic system, the method based on pseudo-bond graph is introduced. According to the working mechanism of hydraulic components, they can be separated into two categories: capacitive components and resistive components. Then, the thermal-hydraulic pseudo-bond graphs of capacitive C element and resistance R element were developed, based on the conservation of mass and energy. Subsequently, the connection rule for the pseudo-bond graph elements and the method to construct the complete thermal-hydraulic system model were proposed. On the basis of heat transfer analysis of a typical hydraulic circuit containing a piston pump, the lumped parameter mathematical model of the system was given. The good agreement between the simulation results and experimental data demonstrates the validity of the modeling method.

Investigations on the Heat Flux Rates in Superheated Water Jet Evaporators

When a liquid undergoes sudden reduction in the surrounding pressure below its saturation pressure, the liquid then enters in a metastable state. In order to regain equilibrium, part of the liquid evaporates quickly in a phenomenon called ＂flash evaporation＂, and the excess sensible heat contained in the liquid is converted into latent heat of vaporization. Therefore, temperatures of both the liquid and the generated vapor decline to the saturation temperature for the reduced pressure. As the heat and mass transfer occur in direct contact between the liquid and its own vapors, the process involves a very high heat transfer rate which makes it suitable for exchanging heat between sources of relatively small temperature difference. Moreover, dispensability of the heat exchange surfaces in this process is a considerable advantage as these surfaces constitute major part of the total system expenses in addition to the associated maintenance problems, especially when dealing with corrosive fluids such like seawater in the thermal desalination processes and in the OTEC （ocean thermal energy conversion） systems. This paper reports on the heat flux variation profiles during the flash evaporation of superheated water jets at various flow conditions. Heat flax was found to grow with time attaining a peak value before it starts to decrease monotonically.

Nanocrystalline TiO_(2) thin film electrodes prepared by common pressure hydrothermal method at low temperature

Nanocrystalline TiO2 thin film electrodes have been prepared from mixed pastes of tetrabutyl titanate and nanocrystalline TiO2 particles by common pressure hydro- thermal method at low temperature. The tetrabutyl titanate was hydrolyzed and crystallized into anatase TiO2 to inter- connect nanocrystalline TiO2 particles and adhere them to conductive substrates, obtaining highly porous and me- chanically stable TiO2 nanocrystalline film. The conversion efficiencies of the dye-sensitized solar cells based on prepared electrodes on conductive glass substrates and flexible sub- strates were 4.8% and 1.9% under illumination of 100 mW/cm2, respectively.

Numerical investigation on gas flow heat transfer and pressure drop in the shell side of spiral-wound heat exchangers

As a critical facility,spiral-wound heat exchanger was(SWHE)has the been widely used in many industrial applications.boundary A computational fluid dynamics(CFD)model employed with smallest periodic element results and periodic conditions to examine around the the characteristics tube of the shell side of SWHE.Numerical simulation show that the heat transfer coefficients and initially mean increase absolute and subsequently decrease simulated 5%with heat radial angle because of the influence measured of backflow turbulent separation.nitrogen The deviation between is transfer coefficients and values for methane,drop,ethane,and are a mixture(methane/ethane)within when mean Reynolds number is over is 30000.For the pressure the simulated results values smaller than the measured values,and the absolute on deviation within 9%.Numerical simulation also tubes indicate that the pressure drop the and heat of transfer coefficients angle the shell side and of SWHE heat decrease as the winding the angle of the increases.Nusselt Considering effect winding on pressure drops transfer coefficients,modified correlations of_=0.308Re^(0.64)Pr^(0.36)(1+sin)^(1.38 )and friction factor f_=0.435Re^(-0.133)(sin)^(-0.36),are proposed.Comparing Nu number with the experimental data,the maximum deviations for heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops are less than 5%and11%respectively.