On the need to maintain homogenous temperature field within the working agent at the intake of a jet engine turbine

The paper presents results from numerical experiments with use of the computer model of the SO-3 engine designed for simulations. The model has been purposefully modified to take account of the assumed nonhomogeneity of the temperature field within the working agent at the turbine intake. It turned out that such nonhomogeneity substantially affects dynamic and static properties of the engine are considered as an object of control since it leads to a lag of the acceleration time and to increasing in fuel consumption. The summarized simulation results demonstrate that the foregoing properties of a jet engine are subject to considerable deterioration in pace with gradual increase of the assumed non-homogeneity of the temperature field, The simulations made it possible to find out that variations of the temperature field non-homogeneity within the working agent at the turbine intake lead to huge fluctuation of the turbine rpm for the idle run, which enables a new look to the role of the so-called idle run valve and importance of that component within the supply and control system of the SO-3 engine.