Min-Max Controller Design for Double Shaft Unmixed Turbofan Engine’s Thermodynamic Model

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Abstract

In this paper, a Min-Max controller design is presented for a doubleshaft unmixed turbofan engine’s thermodynamic model at design point. For this objective, first, the safe operation’s limitations for turbofan engine are determined from the related catalogues and references and used in controller design process. Thermodynamic Modelling and controller design are conducted in Simulink environment of MATLAB software. Simulation results show that the controller effectively provides the thrust command and the limitations of high pressure spool speed and acceleration, output pressure of high pressure compressor and output temperature of combustion chamber are satisfied and surge, stall and flameout events are prevented.

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Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 56
September 2020
Pages 17-32
  • Receive Date: 12 March 2017
  • Revise Date: 20 February 2019
  • Accept Date: 19 September 2018
  • Publish Date: 22 June 2019