Open rotor engine cycle modeling and performance assessment

Aiming to enable dramatic reductions in the environment impact and fuel consumption of future civil aviation, NASA and European related research institutions are committed to developing new concepts and technologies in which counter rotating open rotor (CROR) concept can achieve this objective. In order to evaluate its potential impact, an open rotor engine performance model needs to be established. This paper presents the modeling method of an open rotor engine with the geared counter rotating open rotor (GOR) as object, and implements it in an in-house modular program of gas turbine performance prediction. In addition, the steady-state performance of the model is analyzed, and the model accuracy is verified based on the existing data. On this basis, the performance of open rotor engine and high bypass ratio turbofan engine is compared and results show that the counter rotating open rotor engine has obvious fuel saving advantages.