Research group: Scale-resolved Aerodynamics of Turbo-Components
E-Mail-address: marit.blanke[at]tu-braunschweig.de
Room: 216
Phone: +49 531 391 94233
What does the increasing electrification of aircraft engines have to do with golf ball surfaces?
The answer is: waste heat management, bypass flow, and structured surfaces.
As more and more electrical components are installed in high-bypass turbofan engines in the future, a greater amount of waste heat will be generated. This heat must be released into the environment, and it is best to make use of it beforehand. The idea behind my project is to transfer the waste heat to the bypass flow. There, it increases the enthalpy of the bypass flow and thus also the thrust when it exits through the nozzle.
Heat exchangers are used to transfer the heat to the bypass. These can be structures such as fins or dimples (like on golf balls). I use CFD simulations (RANS, LES, DG) to investigate the heat transfer and the influence of the structures on the flow. I like to use open source software such as Python and Paraview to evaluate my simulations.
When I'm not sitting in front of my screens in Braunschweig, I meet with project partners from the University of Stuttgart or DLR Braunschweig for scientific exchange and collaboration. You can find out more about my project on the SynTrac website: https://www.trr-syntrac.com/de/
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