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ARTICLE WITH SURFACE STRUCTURES FOR CMAS RESISTANCE
20230212086 · 2023-07-06 ·

In some examples, article used as a component for a turbine engine that operates in a high temperature environment. The article may include: a ceramic or ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate; and a coating on the ceramic or the CMC substrate, wherein the coating defines an outer surface of the article. The coating includes a plurality of surface features defining channels on the outer surface of the article. The channels are configured to modify a flow of molten Calcia-Magnesia-Alumina Silicate (CMAS) over the outer surface of the coating in a gas flow over the outer surface of the article to reduce accumulation of the molten CMAS on the outer surface of the article.

Mid-turbine frame for gas turbine engine

A mid-turbine frame (MTF) assembly having: an outer case circumferentially extending around a central axis; an outer ring secured to the outer case and disposed radially inwardly of the outer case relative to the central axis; an inner case structurally connected to the outer case and disposed radially inwardly of the outer ring relative to the central axis; a main plenum circumferentially extending around the central axis and located between the outer case and the outer ring, the main plenum having an inlet fluidly connectable to a source of cooling air, a first outlet fluidly connected to a secondary plenum between the main plenum and the inner case, a second outlet configured to be fluidly connected to a rotor cavity of the low-pressure turbine, and a third outlet configured to be fluidly connected to a plenum surrounding a containment ring of the low-pressure turbine.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE DAMPING OF AN AIRFOIL
20230212957 · 2023-07-06 ·

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to provide damping of an airfoil are disclosed. An example airfoil is disposed in a flow path, the airfoil including a shell defining an exterior surface of the airfoil and forming a cavity in an interior surface of the airfoil, and a lattice damper disposed in the cavity, the lattice damper to reduce vibrational loads exerted on the airfoil.

Aircraft turbine engine equipped with an electrical machine

An aircraft turbine engine includes a gas generator and a fan arranged upstream from the gas generator and configured to generate a main gas flow, one portion of which flows in a flow path of the gas generator to form a primary flow, and another portion of which flows in a flow path around the gas generator to form a secondary flow. The gas generator includes a low-pressure compressor that includes a rotor driving the fan. The turbine engine further includes an electric machine. The electric machine includes a rotor rotated by the rotor of the low-pressure compressor, and a stator extending around the rotor of the electric machine and configured to be cooled by the primary flow.

Turbofan engine with heat exchanger module having optimized fan to element area parameter

A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, and a turbine module. The fan assembly includes fan blades defining a corresponding fan area (A.sub.FAN). The heat exchanger module is in fluid communication with the fan assembly by an inlet duct, and includes radially-extending vanes arranged in a circumferential array with at least one vane including a heat transfer element for heat transfer from a first fluid contained within each element to an airflow passing over a surface of each heat transfer element before entering the fan assembly inlet. Each heat transfer element extends axially along the corresponding vane, with a swept heat transfer element area (A.sub.HTE) being the wetted surface area of all heat transfer elements in contact with the airflow. A Fan to Element Area parameter F.sub.EA of A.sub.HTE/A.sub.FAN lies in the range of 47 to 132.

CERAMIC VARIABLE STATOR VANE BUSHING

Systems and methods include providing a stator vane bushing for a variable stator vane assembly having a movable stator vane and a stator vane housing disposed annularly about the movable stator vane. The bushing includes a flange, a barrel extending from the flange, and a central aperture extending through the flange and the barrel and is disposed in the housing and annularly about the stator vane. The bushing is formed from a ceramic material having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) lower than or equal to a CTE of one or more of a stator vane and a housing of the variable stator vane assembly.

Centrifugal fan noise-lowering structure

A centrifugal fan noise-lowering structure includes a frame having an upper and a lower cover and a sidewall, which together internally define a receiving space communicable with an air inlet and an air outlet of the frame; a stator assembly located in the receiving space and fixedly mounted on the lower cover; and a rotor assembly correspondingly assembled to the stator assembly. The receiving space is internally defined a high pressure zone and a low pressure zone. The upper cover is provided with an airflow passage, which has an inlet located at a position corresponding to the high pressure zone, and an outlet located at a position corresponding to the low pressure zone. With the airflow passage, air in the high pressure zone can be guided to jet out to the low pressure zone to thereby reduce noise produced by the centrifugal fan during its operation.

HEAT EXCHANGER INTEGRATION

A front centre body (FCB) structure for a geared turbofan engine comprises a plurality of vanes extending across the inlet duct to a low pressure compressor and integrates a heat exchanging arrangement to control the temperature of the gearbox of the turbofan engine.

HEAT EXCHANGER COMPRISING A BAFFLE WALL WITH HOLLOW TURBULENCE GENERATORS

A heat exchanger between a fluid and an air flow, includes a heat exchange wall separating the fluid and the air flow, the heat exchange wall including a heat exchange surface that extends parallel to a longitudinal direction of the air flow and with which the air flow is in contact. The heat exchange wall includes at least one turbulence generator extending in a hollow manner in relation to the heat exchange surface.

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURES FOR AIRFOIL BANDS

An airfoil assembly defines an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction, and includes an airfoil and an outer band disposed on an outer end of the airfoil in the radial direction. The outer band includes an outer attachment structure configured to secure the outer band to an outer support structure on an outer side of the outer band.