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The user can rapidly evaluate alternative preliminary designs.
A computer program provides capabilities for numerical simulation and analysis of the thermodynamic performance of aircraft or automotive gas turbine engines. The program was developed to utilize the turboshaft-engine experience base accumulated in aerospace disciplines for designing automotive engines. Potential applications range from ( 1 ) small hybrid automotive power systems (power systems that include energy-storage subsystems) with power levels of about 25 kW to (2) heavy truck and earth-movingmachinery powerplants with megawatt power levels.
Given such inputs from the user as turbine and compressor inlet temperatures and performance characteristics of subsystems, the program calculates such powerplant thermal-performance characteristics as thermal efficiencies, specific fuel-consumption rates, cycle state points,...