Consultation provided to Rolls-Royce and the University of Cambridge, on behalf of the University of Oxford, for a thermally complex novel jet engine concept.
How can a highly thermally-constrained, novel jet engine concept be given a viable, integrated thermal management solution?
Novel jet engine concepts often push thermal loads beyond what conventional heat exchanger designs can handle. Without a workable thermal management solution, an otherwise promising engine concept cannot progress from paper design to real hardware.
The heat exchanger CAD models and performance results from this consultation are confidential to Rolls-Royce, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford, and cannot be shown publicly.
The performance of the designed heat exchangers was one of the contributing factors behind Cambridge University's successful £100,000 research grant application, to progress the engine concept further.
The three heat exchanger designs and the funding they unlocked directly enabled further research collaboration between Oxford, Cambridge, and Rolls-Royce on this engine concept.