Aero-Engine Virtual Thrust Sensing: Review and Technical Pathways

In China, no publicly reported engineering applications of virtual thrust sensing for aero-engines have been achieved to date. This document is a review paper analyzing the development demands, research progress, and key challenges for deploying this technology, including robustness to sensor noise and engine-to-engine variability. It proposes a technical route integrating mechanism–data collaborative design and dissimilar redundancy for future implementation.

Use Cases

• Reviewing model-based and data-driven thrust sensing methods based on the systematic analysis provided.
• Identifying engineering challenges like sensor fault robustness and computational resource limits based on the detailed discussion.
• Designing a mechanism–data collaborative virtual sensing system based on the proposed reference technical route.
• Extending virtual sensing methodologies to other aero-engine parameters based on the referenced insights.

Strengths

• Provides a detailed review of a specific, unsolved engineering challenge in aero-engine thrust sensing.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating open sharing and reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single text document (DOCX) of 325,885 bytes, not a structured data collection.
• Metadata is sparse, with no column information or row count provided, limiting discoverability of specific data points.
• The 'Last updated' date of 2026-03-23 is in the future, indicating a potential metadata error.

Provenance

Source

Hang Zhao

Collection Method

Authored review paper.

Freshness

2026-03-23 11:31:22

Geography

China