United Technologies Corporation

Robert J Mischke

Thomas A Wynosky

Charles A Campbell

A method and apparatus for suppressing jet noise in a gas turbine engine powerplant 10 is disclosed. Various construction details are developed for providing sound suppression at sea level take-off operative conditions and not providing sound suppression at cruise operative conditions. In one embodiment, the powerplant 10 has a lobed mixer 152 between a primary flowpath 44 and a second flowpath 46, a diffusion region downstream of the lobed mixer region (first mixing region 76), and a deployable ejector/mixer 176 in the diffusion region which forms a second mixing region 78 having a diffusion flowpath 72 downstream of the ejector/mixer and sound absorbing structure 18 bounding the flowpath throughout the diffusion region. The method includes deploying the ejector/mixer 176 at take-off and stowing the ejector/mixer at cruise.

Apparatus and method for suppressing sound in a gas turbine engine

The ducting extending a substantial axial length of a gas turbine engine is faired to transition the annular flows of the core engine and fan to a rectangular separate flow in a pair of two-dimensional exhaust nozzles so as to control each flow individually. Each flow is judiciously located to achieve noise control and infrared suppression.

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Middletown, CT, United States of America

Robert J Mischke