Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System 1 article published in JoVE Engineering A Rapid Method for Modeling a Variable Cycle Engine Bing Yu1,2, Rongcheng Miao1,2, Wenjun Shu1,2 1College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System Here, we present a protocol to build a component-level mathematical model for a variable cycle engine.