A New Method of Predicting the Performance of Gas Turbine Engines

Abstract

This paper points out that the turbine performance computation method used widely at present in solving the performance of gas turbine engines is a numerically unstable algorithm. Therefore a new method, namely an inverse algorithm, is proposed. This paper then further proposes a new mathematical model for solving the stable performance of gas turbine engines. It has the features of not only being suitable for an inverse algorithm for turbine performance, but also having fewer dimensions than existing models. It has the advantages of high accuracy, rapid convergence, good stability, fewer computations, and so forth. It has been fully proven that the accuracy of the new model is much greater than that of the common model for gas turbine engines. Additionally, the time consumed for solving the new model is approximately 1/4~1/10 of that for the common model. Therefore, it is valuable in practice.