Flow Quality for Turbine Engine Loads Simulator (TELS) Facility

Abstract

A study was made to define the flow quality in air inlets used to support engine testing in the proposed Turbine Engine Loads Simulator Facility (TELS). The study showed that inlets could be designed that would produce separation-free flow for the worst case of crossflow induced by TELS rotation. The severity of recirculated exhaust gas ingestion by the inlet was estimated using a finite-difference numerical simulation of the engine and its exhaust deflector. Finally, a method was devised for defining the performance of a representative engine, the Pratt and Whitney F100 engine; the possible effects of inlet flow nonuniformity on engine performance in TELS were detailed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA086084

Entities

People

  • R. J. Schulz

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computer Simulations
  • Exhaust Gases
  • Flow Fields
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Transfer
  • Mathematical Models
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Simulators
  • Static Pressure
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines
  • Turbofan Engines
  • Turbojet Engines
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation