abstract: In previous work, the effects of power extraction for onboard electrical equipment and flight control systems were studied to determine which turbine shaft (i.e. high power shaft vs low power shaft) is best suited for power extraction. This thesis will look into an alternative option, a three-spool design with a high-pressure turbine, low-pressure turbine, and a turbine dedicated to driving the fan. One of the three-spool turbines is designed to be a vaneless counter-rotating turbine. The off-design performance of this new design will be compared to the traditional two-spool design to determine if the additional spool is a practical alternative to current designs for high shaft horsepower extraction requirements. Upon analysis, this thesis has shown that a three-spool engine with a vaneless counter-rotating stage has worse performance characteristics than traditional two-spool designs for UAV systems. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Aerospace Engineering 2019
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:53564 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Contributors | Burgett, Luke (Author), Takahashi, Timothy (Advisor), Dahm, Werner (Committee member), Trimble, Steve (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 76 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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