(current version: NLR-TP-2002-069 - PRE-RELEASE)

NLR's 'Turbine Engine Real-Time Simulator' (TERTS) is a component-based real-time modelling environment for gas turbines derived from GSP. TERTS is a powerful real-time tool for analysis of effects of malfunctions of control systems and other sub-systems on performance in pilot-in-the-loop simulations. TERTS is implemented in the Matlab-Simulink environment, offering excellent means to develop separate component and subsystem (especially control system) models. From Simulink, C-code can be generated for direct implementation of the model in NLR's National Simulation Facility NSF.

The TERTS Technical Paper titled "TERTS, a Generic Real-Time Gas Turbine Simulation Environment" was presented as ASME-2001-GT-446 at the ASME Turbo Expo 2001, 4-7 June 2001 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and gives a comprehensive description of the TERTS environment and an illustrative example of an afterburning turbofan.