Aerospace Technic and Technology

The aim of the work was the development and testing of methods for modeling the combustion process in the torch igniters of gas turbine engines. To achieve it, the finite element method was used. The main results of the work are the substantiation of the need to optimize the torch igniters of gas turbine engines. The practice of operating torch igniters of various designs has shown that the stability of their work depends on the parameters of gas turbine engines and external factors (air and fuel temperature, size of fuel droplets, fuel and air consumption, as well as its pressure). At the same time, the scaling of the geometry of the igniter design does not ensure its satisfactory work in the composition of the GTE with modified parameters. In this regard, an urgent task is to develop a combustion model in a flare igniter to optimize its design. A computational model of a torch igniter for a gas turbine engine of a serial gas-turbine engine in a software package for numerical three-dimensional thermodynamic simulation of AN-SYS FLUENT has been developed. To reduce the calculation time and the size of the finite element model, recommendations on the adaptation of the geometric model of the igniter for numerical modeling are proposed. The mod-els of flow turbulence and combustion, as well as initial and boundary conditions, are selected and substantiated. Verification of the calculation results obtained by comparison of numerical simulation with the data of tests on a specialized test bench was performed. It is shown that the developed computational model makes it possible to simulate the working process in the torch igniters of the GTE combustion chambers of the investigated design with a high degree of confidence. The scientific novelty of the work consists in substantiating the choice of the combustion model, the turbulence model, as well as the initial and boundary conditions that provide adequate results to the full-scale experiment on a special test bench. The developed method of modeling the combustion process in gas turbine torch igniters can be effectively used to optimize the design of igniters based on GTE operation conditions, as well as combustion initialization devices to expand the range of stable operation of the combustion chamber. 

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