Climate Assessment of Hydrogen Combustion Aircraft: Towards a Green Aviation Sector

As climate change aggravates, the aviation sector strives to minimize its climate footprint. To this end, international organizations, such as ICAO and ACARE, are promoting mitigation measures including novel technologies, operations, and energy carriers to reduce aircraft emissions significantly. Hydrogen (H2) as an alternative fuel has the...

Aerodynamic Design Space Exploration of a Fuselage Boundary Layer Ingesting Aircraft

Fuselage Boundary-Layer Ingestion (BLI) is a promising example of synergistic design and propulsion-airframe integration to reduce fuel burn. For a BLI configuration, the aero propulsive performance of the aircraft is a result of the complex aerodynamic interaction between the fuselage airframe and the BLI propulsor. This paper presents a design...

Les of hydrogen-enriched methane flames in a lean-burn combustor with axial air injection

Large eddy simulation (LES) paradigms are employed to analyse the internal flow field of a lean premixed swirl-stabilized combustor with axial air injection at both non-reacting and reacting conditions, for a methane and a methane-hydrogen fuel mixture. The thickened flame combustion model (TFM) with detailed chemical kinetic mechanism is...

Development of a Hydrogen-powered Fuselage-mounted BLI Propulsor Add-on for Passenger Aircraft

The concept of an "Auxiliary Power and Propulsion Unit" (APPU) is introduced, which consists of a Boundarylayer ingesting (BLI) propulsor with an engine mounted at the rear of an passenger aircraft fuselage, replacing the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) and contributing around 10% of total cruise thrust, as well as auxiliary power. This APPU unit is...

Installation Penalty of Aero-Engines on Narrow Body Aircraft

Decades of improvements of engine efficiency on internal engine components through better materials, design methods and novel fabrication techniques have resulted in fuel consumption reductions. Another major factor for improving engine fuel consumption has been the increase of bypass ratio. However, this has a significant impact on engine...

A Novel Engine Architecture for Low NOx Emissions

The fuel efficiency of turbofan engines has improved significantly, hence reducing aviation's CO2 emissions. However, the increased operating pressure and temperature for fuel efficiency cause adverse effects on NOx emissions. Therefore, a novel engine concept, which can reduce NOx emissions without affecting the cycle efficiency, is of high...

Operating Characteristics of a Flameless Combustor Obtained By Experiments Informed Modelling

Flameless Combustion is an interesting low NO_x combustion technology for gas turbine engines. In order to design systems for stringent performance standards, it is important to understand emission formation in this regime. To this end, the characteristics of a combustor capable of operating in the Flameless regime are studied....

Aerodynamic Performance of an Aircraft with Aft-Fuselage Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion

View Video Presentation: https://doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2514/6.2021-2467.vid<br/><br/>Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI) is a technology that promises fuel consumption benefits for future civil aircraft. However, it introduces detrimental aerodynamic interactions between the propulsor and the airframe. In particular, the inflow to the BLI...

Operating characteristics of an electrically assisted turbofan engine

With the growing pressure to reduce the environmental footprint of aviation, new and efficient propulsion systems must be investigated. The current research looks at the operating characteristics of a turbofan engine in a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system. Electric motors are used to supply power in the most demanding take-off and...

Coherent vortex structures over a rotating spinner under non-axial inflows at low Reynolds number

Boundary layer instabilities and the formation of coherent spiral vortices over a rotating cone and ellipsoid are studied experimentally. It is found that under a non-axial inflow, the breaking of symmetry in the flow field significantly disturbs the coherence and delays the formation of spiral vortices to higher local Reynolds numbers (Re_l)...

Engine-Embedded Fuselage’s Emissivity Optimization for IR-Signature Reduction of Low Flying Aircraft

Low flight altitude missions are a threat due to the combat aircraft’s Infrared (IR) Signature Level (IRSL) as seen by ground-based IR-seeker. The bands in which, the aircraft is susceptible to a typical IR-guided Surface-to-Air Missile are 3-5 m and 8-12 m. The rear fuselage skin contributes substantially to the overall aircraft IRSL...

A CFD Based Parametric Analysis of S-shaped Inlet for a Novel Blended Wing Body Aircraft

The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) has set an ambitious array of objectives to be accomplished by 2050 for civil aviation. It is often claimed that complying with those targets will not require evolution but, rather, revolution. If the growth in aviation has to be sustained in the future, then we must come up with...

Performance assessment of a Multi-fuel Hybrid Engine for Future Aircraft

This paper presents performance assessment of the proposed hybrid engine concept using Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and kerosene. The multi-fuel hybrid engine is a new engine concept integrated with contra rotating fans, sequential dual combustion chambers to facilitate “Energy Mix” in aviation and a Cryogenic Bleed Air Cooling System (CBACS). The...