Affiliation:
1. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, LTD., Akashi, Japan
Abstract
Reducing fluid dynamic power loss as speed increases is crucial to developing highly efficient high-speed aircraft engine gearing. Therefore, in this study, experiments were conducted using a precise friction-loss management technique and a vacuum pump in the gearbox for experimentally classifying fluid dynamic loss. Consequently, it was found that fluid dynamic loss could be classified into “oil-jet acceleration loss and oil reacceleration loss based on the momentum conservation of point mass” and “oil churning loss and windage loss based on the momentum conservation of an incompressible continuum”. Furthermore, the simulation results obtained via appropriate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the resultant mechanisms agreed with the experimental results. The results of the present study are expected to improve the efficiency of mechanical systems, e.g., the fan drive gear system of Geared Turbofan™ and the accessory gearbox.
Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Cited by
3 articles.
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