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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1995
George P. Liang, Palm City, FL (US);
William J. Yeager, Jupiter, FL (US);
John F. Soileau, Tullahoma, TN (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
The cooling of the exhaust nozzle of a fan jet engine powering aircraft is enhanced by providing an extension cooling concept that includes an extension piece extending axially downstream of the nozzles variable throat that utilizes fan air to cool the forward portion of the divergent nozzle surfaces adjacent to the gas path of the engine and ram air to cool the surfaces downstream of the ejector. A variable vane varies the area of the ejector slot as a function of Aj for compensating for flow losses at off-design points of the nozzle positions during the flight envelope of the aircraft so as to avoid overtemperature of the components.