Aircraft braking pads are subject to an extremely severe thermal environment. During a typical landing the carbon brake pads can reach temperatures up to 700–800 K or even more. Between landings during the taxi and parking phase the brakes have to cool off back to their operational limits in a time interval consistent with the average operational time. In order to evaluate the impact of design modifications on the wheel mounting and fairings, without the need of extensive laboratory and flight campaigns, a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) based methodology was developed. Due to the geometry complexity the need of a geometrically representative, but simplified model comes up, in order to capture the major features of the natural convection flow and temperature fields and can be used to evaluate the influence of design changes on the braking system cooling times. A calibration procedure is carried out, aiming a better representation of the transient phenomenon, using a thermal resistances setting up feature from the solver used. An example of the application of this methodology is presented. A computational grid of over 700,000 tetrahedral elements was constructed and the Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a commercial package (FLUENT). The computational cost for a time accurate solution demands the use of parallel processing in order to complete the analysis in a typical industrial environment timeframe. Comparison with both laboratory and flight data calibrate and validate the results of the computational model. This paper describes the details of the construction of the CFD model, the setting of the initial and boundary conditions and the comparison between measured and simulated parameters.
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ASME 2003 Heat Transfer Summer Conference
July 21–23, 2003
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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- Heat Transfer Division
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0-7918-3693-2
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Luiz Tobaldini Neto,
Luiz Tobaldini Neto
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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Ramon Papa,
Ramon Papa
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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Luis C. de Castro Santos
Luis C. de Castro Santos
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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Luiz Tobaldini Neto
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
Ramon Papa
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
Luis C. de Castro Santos
Empresa Brasileira de Aerona´utica, Sa˜o Jose´ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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HT2003-47578, pp. 847-852; 6 pages
Published Online:
December 17, 2008
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Neto, LT, Papa, R, & de Castro Santos, LC. "Braking System Cooling Time Simulation." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Heat Transfer: Volume 1. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. July 21–23, 2003. pp. 847-852. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2003-47578
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