Abstract:
Blades, including helicopter rotor blades, gas turbine engine fan blades, ai r moving machinery fan blades, and the like, have an air inlet near the hub of the blade, which may be on the pressure side of the blade and/or near the leading edge or trailing edge nearer the tip of the blades, with an air plenum between the air inlet and the slots, whereby air is forced into the inlet, through the plenum and out of the slots into the flow adjacent the blades. The slots may be through the suction surface of the blade, typically near the boundary layer separation point, so that air flowing out of the slots into the boundary lay er of suction surface of the blade, thereby delay or prevent the onset of the boundary layer separation, or to reduce supersonic shock. The inlet may be near the trailing edge of the blade, near the root, adjacent to the air inlet of the core of a jet engine, to suction off air an d reduce fan wake blockage at the core inlet. The slots may be through the pressure surface adjacent the blade tip edge of fan blades to reduce blade tip leakage effects.
Abstract:
The jet noise suppressor includes a nozzle (20; 30), having an arrangement thereon of trapezoidal tabs (40) disposed on the downstream end of the nozzle (20; 30), the tabs (40) having a length (L) and the angular offset with respect to the engine flow such that mixing occurs primarily at the interface of the engine flow and the ambient air. In addition, various construction details are developed for the tabs including tabs that are trapezoidal with tapered sides such that the tabs minimize adverse impact to engine performance.
Abstract:
A lobed mixer (7) has major and minor lobes (8,9). The major lobes increase in both height and width in the downstream axial direction. Each major lobe (8) has two minor lobes (9) positioned on its radially outer surface located downstream of the beginning of the major lobe. The radial depth of the minor lobes increases with downstream axial distance but is never greater than the depth of the major lobes. Each of the chutes (11) formed between the minor lobes introduces an additional stream of cold, low velocity fan flow into the hot, high velocity core flow to improve the uniformity of mixing. The double lobed mixer decreases acoustic intensity while having little or no effect on engine performance.
Abstract:
A lobed mixer (7) has major and minor lobes (8,9). The major lobes increase in both height and width in the downstream axial direction. Each major lobe (8) has two minor lobes (9) positioned on its radially outer surface located downstream of the beginning of the major lobe. The radial depth of the minor lobes increases with downstream axial distance but is never greater than the depth of the major lobes. Each of the chutes (11) formed between the minor lobes introduces an additional stream of cold, low velocity fan flow into the hot, high velocity core flow to improve the uniformity of mixing. The double lobed mixer decreases acoustic intensity while having little or no effect on engine performance.
Abstract:
Blades, including helicopter rotor blades, gas turbine engine fan blades, air moving machinery fan blades, and the like, have an air inlet near the hub of the blade, which may be on the pressure side of the blade and/or near the leading edge or trailing edge nearer the tip of the blades, with an air plenum between the air inlet and the slots, whereby air is forced into the inlet, through the plenum and out of the slots into the flow adjacent the blades. The slots may be through the suction surface of the blade, typically near the boundary layer separation point, so that air flowing out of the slots into the boundary layer of the suction surface of the blade, thereby delay or prevent the onset of boundary layer separation, or to reduce supersonic shock. The inlet may be near the trailing edge of the blade, near the root, adjacent to the air inlet of the core of a jet engine, to suction off air and reduce fan wake blockage at the core inlet. The slots may be through the pressure surface adjacent the blade tip edge of fan blades to reduce blade tip leakage effects.
Abstract:
An internal flow mixer (12) is attached to the rearward end of a turbofan engine (10) for inverting the engine fan (22) and core streams (24). Rearwardly of the internal flow mixer (12) is a multi-lobed exhaust nozzle (14) which mixes ambient air with the gases flowing from the flow mixer (12). An ejector housing (16) lined with acoustic absorption material receives the flow from the exhaust nozzle (14) and discharges the thrust producing gases in noise abatement condition.
Abstract:
An internal flow mixer (12) is attached to the rearward end of a turbofan engine (10) for inverting the engine fan (22) and core streams (24). Rearwardly of the internal flow mixer (12) is a multi-lobed exhaust nozzle (14) which mixes ambient air with the gases flowing from the flow mixer (12). An ejector housing (16) lined with acoustic absorption material receives the flow from the exhaust nozzle (14) and discharges the thrust producing gases in noise abatement condition.
Abstract:
An internal flow mixer (12) is attached to the rearward end of a turbofan engine (10) for inverting the engine fan (22) and core streams (24). Rearwardly of the internal flow mixer (12) is a multi-lobed exhaust nozzle (14) which mixes ambient air with the gases flowing from the flow mixer (12). An ejector housing (16) lined with acoustic absorption material receives the flow from the exhaust nozzle (14) and discharges the thrust producing gases in noise abatement condition.
Abstract:
According to an example embodiment, a gas turbine engine assembly includes, among other things, a fan that has a plurality of fan blades. A diameter of the fan has a dimension D that is based on a dimension of the fan blades. Each fan blade has a leading edge. An inlet portion is situated forward of the fan. A length of the inlet portion has a dimension L between a location of the leading edge of at least some of the fan blades and a forward edge on the inlet portion. A dimensional relationship of L/D is between about 0.2 and 0.45.