General Electric Company

Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran

Trevor Howard Wood

Kishore Ramakrishnan

Davide Giacché

Angela Knepper

Nicholas Bown

Thomas William Vandeputte

Angela Marie Knepper

Nicholas William Bown

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.

Systems and methods for improved propeller design

A turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. Fuel combusted in the combustion section drive stages of airfoils in the turbine section to drive the compressor section. The airfoils can include a geometry near or at the trailing edge with a linear portion provided between the pressure side and a first curved portion, to reduce shock generated in the wake of the airfoils.

Gas turbine engine with an airfoil

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Niskayuna, NY, United States of America

Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran