Abstract:
An aircraft assembly includes an engine, and intake, and a propeller assembly. The engine is mounted to at least one of a wing or fuselage of an aircraft. The intake is configured to provide air to the engine. The intake includes a body having an engine inlet through which air enters the intake. The propeller assembly includes propeller blades coupled to and driven by the engine. The propeller assembly is spaced an axial distance from the inlet opening of the intake wherein air passing by the propeller blades enters the intake. The propeller assembly has a propeller configuration that is at least one of sized or shaped to optimize performance of the propeller assembly based on an interaction between the propeller assembly and the intake.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a low-distortion inlet assembly for reducing airflow swirl distortion entering an aft fan mounted to a fuselage of an aircraft. Further, the inlet assembly includes a plurality of structural members mounted at one or more predetermined locations around a circumference of the fan shaft of the fan. More specifically, the predetermined location(s) has a swirl distortion exceeding a predetermined threshold. Further, the inlet assembly includes at least one airflow modifying element configured within the inlet so as to reduce swirl distortion entering the fan.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a low-distortion inlet assembly for reducing airflow swirl distortion entering an aft fan mounted to a fuselage of an aircraft. Further, the inlet assembly includes a plurality of structural members mounted at one or more predetermined locations around a circumference of the fan shaft of the fan. More specifically, the predetermined location(s) has a swirl distortion exceeding a predetermined threshold. Further, the inlet assembly includes at least one airflow modifying element configured within the inlet so as to reduce swirl distortion entering the fan.
Abstract:
Aeroelastically tailored propellers for noise reduction and improved efficiency in a turbomachine are provided including one or more upstream blades and one or more downstream blades disposed downstream relative to the one or more upstream blades. Each of the one or more upstream blades and the one or more downstream blades are aeroelastically tailored such that the one or more downstream blades include a greater degree of effective clipping during a second condition than at a first condition. Each blade among the one or more upstream blades comprises one or more geometric parameters. Each blade among the one or more downstream blades comprises one or more geometric parameters. In addition, an open rotor aircraft gas turbine engine assembly including the aeroelastically tailored propellers and a method of decreasing noise and improving efficiency in a turbomachine are disclosed.
Abstract:
An unducted airfoil assembly includes an airfoil having spaced-apart pressure and suction sides extending radially in span from a root to a tip, and extending axially in chord between spaced apart leading and trailing edges. The airfoil defines a forward-most axial point and is arranged around a longitudinal axis and rotates about the longitudinal axis in a rotational direction. A tip leading edge of the airfoil is circumferentially offset in a direction opposite the rotational direction relative to a circumferential location of the forward-most axial point.
Abstract:
A turbofan engine may include a variable pitch fan rotatable about an axis and operable in a forward thrust mode by generating flow opposite a direction of travel and in a reverse thrust mode by generating flow in the direction of travel. In reverse thrust mode, a nacelle assembly defines an intermediate opening disposed aft of the variable pitch fan. A flow guide assembly is configured to guide a first fluid flow opposite the direction of travel within a bypass passage from a forward opening to an aft opening of the nacelle assembly in forward thrust mode, and to redirect a second fluid flow from outside the bypass passage opposite the direction of travel to inside the bypass passage in the direction of travel through the intermediate opening in reverse thrust mode. One or more flow channels are defined for generating at least one fluidic injection pressurized by a core.
Abstract:
A turbofan engine defining a circumferential direction is provided. The turbofan engine includes: a turbomachine, the turbomachine defining a pylon attachment location along the circumferential direction; an unducted rotor assembly drivingly coupled to the turbomachine, the unducted rotor assembly including a plurality of unducted rotor blades; and a plurality of outlet guide vanes positioned downstream of the plurality of unducted rotor blades, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including NOGV number of outlet guide vanes, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including a first outlet guide vane and a second outlet guide vane adjacent the first outlet guide vane, the first and second outlet guide vanes defining a gap spacing greater than 360 degrees divided by NOGV, and the pylon attachment location positioned outside of between the first and second outlet guide vanes along the circumferential direction.
Abstract:
A rotary component for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of rotor blades operably coupled to a rotating shaft extending along the central axis and an outer casing arranged exterior to the plurality of rotor blades in a radial direction of the gas turbine engine. The outer casing defines a gap between a blade tip of each of the plurality of rotor blades and the outer casing. The outer casing includes a plurality of features formed into an interior surface thereof. Each of the plurality of features includes one or more design parameters that are perturbed about a mean design parameter for stall performance so as to provide a circumferential variation in wake strengths associated with the plurality of rotor blades, thereby reducing operational noise of the gas turbine engine.
Abstract:
A rotary component includes a plurality of rotor blades operably coupled to a rotating shaft extending along a central axis of the rotary component and an outer casing arranged exterior to the plurality of rotor blades in a radial direction of the rotary component. The outer casing defines a gap between a blade tip of each of the plurality of rotor blades and the outer casing. The outer casing includes a plurality of features formed into an interior surface thereof. Further, at least one feature of the plurality of features is a slot having an acoustic liner feature integrated therein to reduce operational noise of the rotary component.
Abstract:
A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan blades include a composite blade including a composite airfoil section having an airfoil leading edge and an airfoil trailing edge, a root attached to the composite airfoil section, and a blade shank therebetween. A metallic leading edge shield covers an axially extending portion of the composite airfoil section including at least a portion of the airfoil leading edge and covers a radially and chordwise extending portion of the airfoil leading edge of the blade shank. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.