After more than half a century of operational use of gas turbine engines to power military aircraft, this symposium sets the focus on highlights of today's achievements in research and development of aircraft engine technology. Future military aircraft will require significant performance gains from the propulsion system to provide enhanced operational flexibility, longer range, better fuel efficiency and improved affordability. Gas turbine engines combine disciplines from all major engineering sciences in a most interdependent way. The energy concentration in engine components is permanently increasing. Aerodynamic loads, materials, cooling techniques, structural components, mechanical systems, combustors, augmentors and nozzles are equally designed to the limit of know how. Sophisticated methods and design tools are used, relying on electronic control and monitoring systems, which safely operate engines close to their boundaries of flow stability and their mechanical integrity, at the same time pushing further the useable life span and reducing life cycle cost (LCC). The symposium addressed gas turbine design aspects for all classes of engines, including turbofan/turbojet, turboprops/turboshaft and turboramjet engines for tactical, transport, helicopter and expendable aircraft applications. The results will permit the military user to better understand the limit and options of any gas turbine engine in performance and use. They will also allow the industries of the NATO countries to better meet the design goals and other requirements set by the military customer thus improving NATO's defense and peace keeping capability while respecting today's budget constraints.
Design Principles and Methods for Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
1999
490 pages
Report
No indication
English
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