Gas Turbine Simulation Taking into Account Dynamics of Gas Capacities

The chapter considers one of the main dynamic factors of the turbine engine — the dynamics of gas capacities. Typically, the most influencing capacities in the turbine engine are combustion chamber, afterburner, mixing chamber, secondary duct of turbofan, and jet nozzle. Simulation of high-frequency transients in turbine engines needs taking into account this factor. For the needs of automatic control and parametric diagnostics, the equations of capacities must be combined with the equations of rotor dynamics and, sometimes, with the equations of a measurement system and actuators. The model complexity consists in two features. The first feature is in how many segments are used to simulate the capacity. The second feature is in what of three basic laws are taken into account at the gas motion description: the mass conservation law, the energy conservation law, and the momentum conservation law. This chapter includes the analysis of models of different complexity followed by the conclusions about their applicability. In the last part of the chapter, the real case of the engine dynamics analysis is considered when the designer does not need the simulation of the capacities ’ dynamics in time, but needs estimating of the capacities ’ ability to oscillate and in their natural oscillation frequencies.