Propulsion system integration and optimisation

燃气涡轮发动机迅速发展，为全球运输提供了可靠、高效的商业解决方案。引擎设计过程显然是这种演变的主要贡献者。这个过程是高度迭代的，多学科和复杂的性质。发动机的成功取决于精心平衡的设计，这种设计最好地利用了许多传统工程学科之间的相互作用，例如空气动力学和结构，以及成本、可制造性、可维护性和可支持性的生命周期分析。普惠加拿大公司（P&WC）是小型航空发动机设计和制造领域的全球领导者。加普惠通常每年设计和开发10-15台发动机，在过去十年中，新发动机的认证数量达到创纪录的50台。为了延续这一趋势并满足新的市场需求，高级设计和发动机模块设计研究每年可能达到30至50项。该计划旨在部署一个完全自动化和集成的P&WC涡轮系统优化器“TSO”，能够在空气动力学性能、冷却流量、耐用性、成本和重量之间找到最佳平衡，以实现最佳产品性能。由此产生的“TSO”有望产生更好的综合结果，同时进一步减少发动机设计的耗时。为了让学生了解发动机性能、重量和成本之间的权衡，简化版将提供给大学。该计划的动力来自于École de technology supsamrieure （ETS）的愿景，其目标是通过与P&WC的战略工业合作伙伴关系，加强其在推进系统方面的专业知识，以培养在整个动力装置和飞机系统的优化和集成方面拥有更丰富知识的新一代工程师。

The gas turbine engine has envolved rapidly to provide a reliable and efficient business solution for global transportation. The engine design process is clearly a large contributor to this evolution. This process is highly iterative, multidisciplinary and complex in nature. The success of an engine depends on a carefully balanced design that best exploits the interactions between numerous traditional engineering disciplines such as aerodynamics and structures as well as lifecycle analysis of cost, manufacturability, serviceability and supportability. Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is the world leader in the design and manufacturing of small aero-engines. P&WC typically designs and develops 10-15 engines per years, which has resulted in a record 50 new engines certified over the past ten years. To continue this and to address new market requirements, advanced design and engine module design studies could reach 30 to 50 per years. The proposed program aims to deploy a fully automated and integrated P&WC Turbine System Optimizer "TSO" that is capable of finding the optimal balance between aerodynamic performance, cooling flows, durability, cost and weight in order to achieve the best product performance. The resulting "TSO" is expected to produce better-integrated results, while providing a step reduction in engine design elapsed time. A simplified version will be made available to universities in order to provide students with knowledge of trade-off between engine performance, weight and cost. The proposed program draws motivation from the vision at École de technologie supérieure (ETS), whose aim is to strengthen its expertise in propulsion systems through a strategic industrial partnership with P&WC in order to develop a new generation of engineers with greater knowledge in optimization and integration of the entire powerplant and aircraft system.