> > Just wondering if someone has put their hand up for the Gas Turbine modelling > goal. I do not use FGFS but am interested in modelling gas turbines and would > like to do simple, general, thermodynamic models for turbo jet, turbo shaft / > prop and fan jet engines. > > Please let me know if I can be of any use to the project :-) > I manage to throw together a rough model of a turbo-fan which I passed along to Dave Culp and it may have found it's way to Jon Berndt. But it is definitely not ready-for-prime-time. I just needed something to drive the EICAS panel and provide a set of engine parameters that responded to throttle movements. It will show you how to set up the code within the JSBSim architecture and engine properties to FG. I'll be happy to pass it along in its current condition if you are interested.
There are a couple of websites sponsored by NASA on turbine modeling and you might check out John Reed's site and papers at http://memslab.eng.utoledo.edu/~jreed/jgts/ Modeling all the details and intricacies of a turbine engine can be a career, OTH a more complete turbine model for FG would be a plus. Just a thought; it would be neat to accumulate engine time, thermal stress, gear drive wear & tear, engine trim conditions, etc to provide a variance in turbine performance and some randomness to multi-engine aircraft. Four sets of gauges all showing the same rpm, egt, n1, n2, etc is kind of boring ;-) Regards John W _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
