Abstract:
To increase the intake-side low-pressure thrust over the intake airfoil in an encased axial-flow blower in a lift-jet engine with a highly curved intake airfoil while reducing to a minimum the drive-generating intake propulsive thrust over the surface of the blower rotor, the geometrical relationships between the intake airfoil and the twist of the blades (3) are chosen so that the total pressure differential between the upper and lower sides of the blower is greater radially outward than radially inward. The profile chord angle ( beta ) is modified very slightly in the central region of the rotor blades (3) and any guide blades (26) downstream of the blower rotor preferably have a corresponding symmetrical twist.