Technical Paper
HYTRAN Enhancements that Meet Aerospace Hydraulic-System Analysis Needs
1988-10-01
881363
The HYdraulic TRansient ANalysis (HYTRAN) program has under gone extensive revisions that correct and enhance the program to meet the needs of those analyzing and/or designing aerospace hydraulic systems. Presented in this paper are a discussion of the revisions, a detailed explanation for the changes, and evidence from flight-test data that the improved HYTRAN program can meet the needs of the aerospace industry. The revisions affect all aspects of the HYTRAN program: steady-state analysis, transient analyses, hydraulic component models, and overall program improvements. The effects of these revisions on hydraulic analyses have been to 1) correct previous steady-state and transient solution errors, 2) reduce user handling time, 3) increase computational efficiency, and 4) improve HYTRAN's hydraulic component library.