Fuel flowrate control system and fuel thermal management are very important for aeroengine and the overall aircraft, and it has been researched for several decades. This survey paper makes a comprehensive and systematic overview on the exiting fuel flowrate regulation methods, thermal load of fuel metering units, fuel-based thermal management, and the fuel tank’s thermal management topology network with drain and recirculation. This paper firstly reviews the mechanism, technical advantages, and technical challenges of the fuel metering unit with flowrate control valve and constant pressure difference valve compensator, flowrate control valve and variable displacement pump-based pressure difference compensator, and motor-based flowrate regulation. Then, the technical characteristics of above fuel flowrate control methods related to thermal management are discussed and compared. Meanwhile, the behaviors of recirculated fuel flow within single tank system and dual tank system are explored. Thirdly, the paper discusses the future directions of fuel flowrate control and thermal management. The survey is significant to the fuel flowrate control and fuel thermal management of the aircraft.

This paper deals with the modeling of the thermal load and the simulation of thermal dynamic characteristics for the hydraulic system of a large airliner in a full mission profile. Firstly, the formation mechanism of the thermal load in the hydraulic system is analyzed, and thermal dynamic modeling is conducted of the hydraulic components of an hydraulic system with an immersed heat exchanger employing the lumped parameter thermal node method and oil temperature and power loss of each key node within the hydraulic system within a full mission profile. Then, a thermal dynamic simulation model based on MATLAB/Simulink is established, and the temperatures at the nodes of different components and the absorptive capacity of the fuel heat sink in the thermal management module are calculated. The simulation results show that the thermal management scheme of the heat exchanger, located in the return oil pipeline of the hydraulic piston pump housing and immersed in the central fuel tank, can dissipate the thermal load of the system. This work is of important significance for temperature analysis and thermal load dissipation of the airliner hydraulic system.

Hydraulic system is an important part in aircraft secondary energy‐resource system, its pumping source contains engine‐driven pump (EDP) and electrical‐motor‐driven pump, and it is in charge of safe and reliable power transmission for flight control actuation in the aircraft. The power losses in hydraulic system will inevitably result in the temperature rise of hydraulic system, and which will seriously affect the performances of hydraulic system. Therefore, to cool thermal load and control hydraulic oil temperature in allowable range is necessary. This survey paper reviews the present status of thermal load analysis and thermal management of the aircraft hydraulic system, especially more electric aircraft (MEA), and proposes fuel/hydraulic oil heat exchanger is the more effective heat dissipation component for fuel oil as heat sink be directly burned in burner without the extra cooling cost. Moreover, this paper provides some considerations and thorough analysis on thermal management schemes and actuators in power by wire transmission system of MEA. The main summarised conclusions and proposed considerations have the important practical significances to design and high efficient operation of airborne hydraulic system.

Speed control and smooth regulation in an electro-hydraulic motion control system under negative load (over-running load) are crucial to mobile machineries, vehicles, and motion simulation equipment. Problems, such as bad natural stability, bad dynamic performance for small adjusting signal, serious coupling, and difficulty to coordinate between speed smoothness and speed regulation, exist in traditional valve-controlled and pump-controlled electro-hydraulic power mechanism. The coordinated motion control scheme, which is based on independent regulation of inlet/outlet oil for electro-hydraulic power mechanism has attracted the attention of many scholars. In the last two decades, many progresses had been made in coordinated control technology, employing in inlet/outlet independent metering and pump/valves independent regulation. Moreover, the technology has been widely used in the electro-hydraulic operating system in hydraulic excavator and the speed smoothness control system in heavy transport vehicles. In this study, recent advancements and upcoming trends in coordinated control and inlet/outlet independent metering for electro-hydraulic power mechanism under sustained negative load are reviewed. Firstly, related research advancements are summarized, including flow rate regulation mechanism based on inlet/outlet coordinated control, coordinated control strategy and nonlinear control method of electro-hydraulic control system. Then, nonlinear modeling of inlet/outlet independent metering and pump/valves independent regulation in electro-hydraulic control system is presented. In addition, the electro-hydraulic speed smoothness control and energy recovery for heavy engineering vehicles under long down-slope is discussed and reviewed. Finally, existing problems and future trends of inlet/outlet coordinated control for an electro-hydraulic power mechanism under sustained negative load are presented.