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Optimization of Wave Rotors for Use as Gas Turbine Engine Topping Cycles
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Use of a wave rotor as a topping cycle for a gas turbine engine can improve specific power and reduce specific fuel consumption. Maximum improvement requires the wave rotor to be optimized for best performance at the mass flow of the engine. The optimization is a trade-off between losses due to friction and passage opening time, and rotational effects. An experimentally validated, one-dimensional CFD code, which includes these effects, has been used to calculate wave rotor performance, and find the optimum configuration. The technique is described, and results given for wave rotors sized for engines with sea level mass flows of 4,26, and 400 lb/sec.
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Wilson, J. and Paxson, D., "Optimization of Wave Rotors for Use as Gas Turbine Engine Topping Cycles," SAE Technical Paper 951411, 1995, https://doi.org/10.4271/951411.Also In
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