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Applicability of correlational data-mining to small-scale turbojet performance map generation

  • Francisco Villarreal-Valderrama , Pedro Juárez-Pérez , Ulises García-Pérez and Luis Amezquita-Brooks EMAIL logo
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International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines
From the journal International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines Volume 40 Issue s1

Abstract

Turbojet applications benefit from accurate performance models. The aim of this study is to explore the applicability of data-mining algorithms to determine relationships between the generated thrust, the environmental conditions (free stream air-speed, inlet temperature and pressure) and the operating conditions (input fuel flow and shaft angular speed). For this purpose, experimental tests were carried out within wind-tunnel facilities using an experimental single-spool turbojet test bench. It is well-known that a large set of data-mining approaches relies on establishing linear correlations among input and output variables. The scope of this article is to assess the applicability of correlational data-mining approaches by i) an exploratory data analysis to find underlying data patterns and ii) principal component regressions to obtain a suitable predictive model for the generated thrust. Validation experiments demonstrated that the data-based model allows capturing the effects of the environmental and operating conditions with good accuracy (Root Mean Squared Error RMSE = 3.5100%), while maintaining a low complexity in the resulting structure. These results show that it is possible to generate turbojet experimental performance maps through data-mining algorithms with a correlational approach.

Keywords: data mining; data science; MSC 2010 93A30mathematical modeling; performance map; turbojet modeling
Corresponding author: Luis Amezquita-Brooks, Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Av. Universidad S/N, San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-10-31
Accepted: 2021-11-03
Published Online: 2021-11-23

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https://doi.org/10.1515/tjj-2021-0062
Keywords for this article
data mining; data science; MSC 2010 93A30mathematical modeling; performance map; turbojet modeling

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