BLENDED WING BODY AIRCRAFT
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230322382A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US17658909

    申请日:2022-04-12

    IPC分类号: B64C39/10 B64D33/02

    摘要: A blended wing body aircraft includes a body section having an aerodynamic lifting surface. The body section includes an upper body and a lower body. The blended wing body aircraft also includes a plurality of blended wing sections further defining the body section. The blended wing body aircraft includes one or more grooves in the body section. The one or more grooves extend from the upper body towards the lower body. The blended wing body aircraft further includes one or more open-fan engines mounted at least partially within the one or more grooves. The one or more open-fan engines ingest a portion of a boundary layer of the blended wing body aircraft.

    OPEN ROTOR TURBOMACHINERY ENGINES

    公开(公告)号:US20220259985A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-18

    申请号:US17176106

    申请日:2021-02-15

    IPC分类号: F01D15/12 F02C6/20

    摘要: A turbomachinery engine includes an unducted rotor assembly, a low-pressure turbine, a low-pressure shaft, a gearbox, and an engine correlation parameter. The unducted rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor blades arranged in a single row and defining a blade diameter. The gearbox includes an input, an output, and a gear ratio. The input of the gearbox is coupled to the low-pressure shaft (which is coupled to the LPT), and the output of the gearbox is coupled to the unducted rotor assembly. The engine correlation parameter is greater than 0.17 and less than 0.83. The engine correlation parameter equals D/N/GR, where D is the blade tip diameter measured in feet, N is the stage count of the low-pressure turbine, and GR is the gear ratio of the gearbox. The unducted propulsor assembly optionally includes a disk loading within a range of 60-180 HP/ft2 at a takeoff flight condition.

    Gas turbine engine having a heat exchanger located in an annular duct

    公开(公告)号:US11927134B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US18160375

    申请日:2023-01-27

    IPC分类号: F02C7/12 F01D25/12 F01D25/14

    摘要: A gas turbine engine is provided, having a turbomachine and a rotor assembly driven by the turbomachine and operable at a first blade passing frequency (f1) greater than or equal to 2,500 hertz and less than or equal to 5,000 hertz during a high power operating condition; a heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct and extending substantially continuously along the circumferential direction, wherein an effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for a high power operating condition, and wherein the heat exchanger comprises a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the high power operating condition, the OARR equal to:




    sin







    (



    2
    ×
    π
    ×

    f
    1



    a
    1


    ×

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    wherein a1 is equal to 13,200 inches per second during the high power operating condition.

    NACELLE INLET DUCT FOR A DUCTED FAN ENGINE
    9.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240052780A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US17819426

    申请日:2022-08-12

    IPC分类号: F02C7/045 F01D25/04

    摘要: An inlet duct for a nacelle of a ducted fan engine includes an inlet portion at an upstream end of the inlet duct, an acoustic liner arranged downstream of the inlet portion, and a fan section arranged downstream of the acoustic liner. The inlet portion and the acoustic liner are coupled together at an inlet-acoustic liner interface extending circumferentially about the inner surface of the inlet duct, and the acoustic liner and the fan section are coupled together at a fan section hardwall-acoustic liner interface extending circumferentially about the inner surface of the inlet duct. At least one of the acoustic liner, the inlet-acoustic liner interface, and the fan section hardwall-acoustic liner interface having a structure that circumferentially alters a magnitude and a phase of an acoustic wave reflection of the inlet duct to attenuate flutter bite of a fan.