Propulsive efficiency of boundary layer ingestion propellers
Paper in proceeding, 2018

The pursuit of lower fuel consumption for aircraft is promoting a departure from contemporary arrangements. One example is the development of more synergetic airframe and propulsion system designs, which are expected to increase significantly aircraft efficiency mainly by means of boundary layer ingestion. By integrating propulsion and airframe, both systems will significantly impact each other. This mutual interference requires the development of novel performance evaluation methods that consider such effects. This manuscript introduces a propulsive efficiency equation for boundary layer ingestion propellers based on the power balance method. Two formulations are presented for numerical and analytical evaluations. The equation is bounded between 0 and 1 and allows a meaningful evaluation of shaft to propulsive powers conversion, which results in an accurate determination of thrust and drag. This manuscript is the first advance of a project that will develop an optimizing tool for boundary layer ingestion propellers based on computational fluid dynamic simulations. The results will be presented in subsequent manuscripts.

Author

Gustavo Bonolo De Campos

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Jesuino Takachi Tomita

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Fabíola Paula Costa

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Cleverson Bringhenti

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Olivier Petit

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics

Tomas Grönstedt

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics

Alexandre Capitao Patrao

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics

Gustavo Trapp

Embraer

Carlos Roberto Ilário Da Silva

Embraer

Anders Lundbladh

GKN

31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018

31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018
Belo Horizonte, Brazil,

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Aerospace Engineering

Computational Mathematics

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