John Wojnaroski wrote:

> It's generic, but needs some massaging to handle things like 
> compressor/turbine maps, engine parameters such as inlet area, fan size. 
> Point in fact, the model is based on John Reed's paper for LeRC, but the 
> actual numbers are my best guess to obtain some reasonable numbers for 
> engine performance and response. The start sequence is kind of nice with 
> the EGT showing the typical rise to a peak and then settling into the 
> idle range.

Is this the paper:

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A Java simulator for teaching gas turbine operation 

John A. Reed and Abdollah A. Afjeh (Toledo, Univ., OH) 
AIAA-1997-850 
Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 35th, Reno, NV, Jan. 6-9, 1997 
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I can't find it anywhere online.

> The FGTurbine code is replaced "en masse".  No, sorry did not, but you 
> should be able to run a diff. It's been a few months since I worked in 
> that area, recall some changes in the FGEngine, and a few other areas to 
> handle loading in the other engine parameters from the xml files.  
> Probably makes more sense to wait for the next JSBSim release.
> I'll probably revisit that code in the next few months for another 
> project and update it as needed.

Sounds good.

Jon


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