Abstract: An annular combustion chamber (10) having a first annular wall (12) and a second annular wall (13) that are coaxial about an axis (X), a chamber end wall (14) connecting together the first and second walls (12, 13), and a plurality of injectors (16), the first wall (12) including first air feed holes (18) downstream from the injectors (16), the combustion chamber (10) being characterized in that for at least a first one of said injectors (16), at least three of the first holes (18) sharing the first injector as their closest injector are situated at equal distances (D) from the first injector (16).

Abstract: A stator vane of a turbine of a gas turbine engine, including an outer platform and an inner platform between which there extends an outer wall forming an outer skin, wherein it includes an inner wall, forming an inner skin, facing the outer wall so as to define an inter-skin cavity between the outer wall and the inner wall, the inner wall including a plurality of cooling orifices for impingement cooling of the outer wall, the outer wall and inner wall being produced by additive manufacturing.

Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine including an annular channel designed to form a flow duct for a flow of gas between two turbine stages of the turbomachine. The channel is bounded by a radially inner annular wall and a radially outer annular wall. The walls are connected by hollow arms that extend radially, a support having a radially outer annular part that is located radially outside the outer annular wall of the annular channel, and a radially inner annular part that is located radially inside the inner annular wall of the annular channel. The outer and inner parts of the support are connected by connecting parts that extend radially and pass through one of the hollow arms of the annular channel. The connecting parts may be connected by a connecting partition having a frangible part that ruptures when the mechanical stresses in the connecting partition are above a threshold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a removable reactivation pack for a turboshaft engine of a helicopter, comprising a gas generator equipped with a drive shaft, said turboshaft engine (6) being capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable flight of the helicopter, said removable pack comprising: a removable gearbox comprising a gearbox output shaft; controlled means for rotating said gearbox output shaft, referred to as reactivation means of said turboshaft engine; mechanical means for reversibly coupling said gearbox output shaft to said drive shaft of said gas generator.

Abstract: A bladed rotor comprising a rotor disk (12) presenting two front faces (14, 15) and an outer peripheral face (16), sockets (18) being provided in the outer peripheral face (16) and opening out into at least one of the front faces (14, 15). The rotor (10) comprising blades (30), each having a root (32) whereby the blade is fastened in a socket (18), an end face (31) of the root being substantially level with the front face (14) of the disk when the blade is fastened in the socket. A coating layer (40) is deposited on the disk (12) so as to cover both at least a portion of the front face (14) of the disk and at least a portion of the end face (31) of the root (32).

Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft, comprising at least one rotor and a nacelle fairing extending around the at least one rotor with respect to an axis of rotation of the rotor, the nacelle fairing comprising: an upstream section forming an inlet section of the nacelle fairing; a downstream section, a downstream end of which forms an outlet section of the nacelle fairing; and an intermediate section connecting the upstream and downstream sections, wherein the downstream section comprises a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall made of a deformable shape memory material, and wherein the downstream end forming the outlet section has a pneumatic or hydraulic annular actuator extending around the axis of rotation and configured to deform radially under a predetermined control pressure so as to vary an outer diameter of the outlet section between a minimum diameter and a maximum diameter.

Abstract: The electrical machine according to the invention is a dual machine, and comprises a first machine which can be reversed and a second machine functioning through induction between two windings. The second machine can be used for de-icing a propeller, the induction-receiving winding being mounted on the propeller shaft. The first electrical machine can function as an electrical engine to ‘taxi’ the aircraft. In certain embodiments, the winding mounted on the stator is common to the two machines and different magnetic flows are utilised to control them. A separate functioning of the two machines and a very good integration into the aircraft engine, with space-saving and low mass, are possible.

Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft, comprising at least one rotor and a nacelle fairing extending around the at least one rotor with respect to an axis of rotation of the rotor, the nacelle fairing comprising: an upstream section forming an inlet section of the nacelle fairing; a downstream section wherein a downstream end forms an outlet section of the nacelle fairing; and an intermediate section connecting the upstream and downstream sections, wherein the downstream section comprises a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall made of a deformable shape memory material, and further comprising at least one actuator mechanism with at least one cylinder configured to cooperate with one or more components, projections, etc., embedded in an inner surface of the radially outer wall so as to vary an outer diameter of the outlet section between a minimum diameter and a maximum diameter.

Abstract: An architecture of a propulsion system of a multi-engine helicopter is disclosed, comprising turboshaft engines that are connected to a power transmission gearbox. It comprises: a hybrid turboshaft engine that is capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable flight of the helicopter; a pack for quickly restarting said hybrid turboshaft engine in order to bring said engine out of said standby mode and to reach a nominal operating mode; an auxiliary power unit that is connected to said electrotechnical restart pack by means of a first AC/DC converter and is capable of providing said restart pack, on demand, with power required for bringing said hybrid turboshaft engine out of said standby mode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a particle-trapping device (2) for a turbomachine, said particles being contained in an air stream flowing inside a turbomachine, in particular the air stream flowing in the bypass region (17) of the combustion chamber (13) of said turbomachine. The device is characterized in that it comprises: —at least two particle deflectors (3, 3a, 3b, 3c), —a member (5) for collecting and storing the particles deflected by said deflector, —and means (6) for attaching said trapping device (2) to a part of the turbomachine.

Abstract: An aircraft engine-part including at least a metal substrate and a protective coating for protection against erosion that is present on the substrate, the coating including at least one phase including at least chromium at an atom content greater than or equal to 45% and carbon at an atom content lying in the range 5% to 20%, the phase including Cr7C3 and Cr23C6 chromium carbides. A method of fabricating such a part in which electroplating is used to deposit a coating composition on the part and the part is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature lying in the range 250° C. to 70° C.

Abstract: A method of evaluating the corrosion resistance of a coated metal substrate, the method including putting a liquid composition into contact with a corrosion protection coating present on the surface of a metal substrate, the liquid composition including water, a gelling agent, corrosion-catalyst ions, and a color pH indicator; gelling the liquid composition in order to form a corrosion-accelerator gel in contact with the coating; performing a corrosion test during which the gel that has formed is left in contact with the corrosion protection coating; and evaluating the corrosion resistance of the substrate coated by the corrosion protection coating by observing the color of the color pH indicator present in the gel after performing the corrosion test.

Abstract: A field of turbine engines, and more particularly to an engine including a compressor; a combustion chamber; a first turbine connected to the compressor by a first rotary shaft; an actuator device for actuating the first rotary shaft in order to keep the first turbine and the compressor in rotation while the combustion chamber is extinguished; and a lubrication circuit for lubricating the engine. The circuit passes through at least one heat source suitable for heating the lubricant in the lubrication circuit while the first turbine and the compressor are rotating with the combustion chamber extinguished.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blade of a guide vane assembly of a turbomachine fitted with a cooling system, generally including an insert arranged inside an internal cavity of said blade, connected to a cooling air inlet of the blade and designed to cool the surface of the internal cavity of the blade, and a bleed device configured to bleed some of the cooling air inside the insert and designed to send this bled cooling air to a central hub of the turbomachine. The bleed device of the blade may further include a bleed head arranged in the internal cavity of the blade and passing through an opening of the insert, and configured to bleed some of the cooling air inside the insert.

Abstract: The hybrid propulsion system for a multi-engine aircraft includes a plurality of free-turbine engines, each having a gas generator, among which at least a first engine, or hybrid engine, is suitable for operating in at least one standby mode during stabilized flight of the aircraft, while other engines of the plurality of engines operate alone during such stabilized flight. The hybrid engine is associated with first and second identical electric powertrains, each including a respective electrical machine capable of operating as a starter and as a generator, itself connected to a respective electronic power module, itself selectively connected to a specific electrical power supply network, such as an onboard network, and to a respective at least one electrical energy storage member. Each of the electric powertrains is adapted to deliver maximum power not less than half the total power needed for rapid reactivation of the hybrid engine.

Abstract: An electric actuator for inlet guide vanes of a gas turbine engine, the electric actuator including a fixed portion secured to a stationary portion of the engine and a movable portion that is mechanically connected to the inlet guide vanes, stationary electromagnets distributed at regular intervals around the periphery of the movable portion and fastened to the fixed portion, and movable electromagnets arranged between the stationary electromagnets, each movable electromagnet being secured on either side to first and second piezoelectric elements, the movable electromagnets and the first and second piezoelectric elements having a degree of freedom of movement relative to the movable portion and having inside faces forming a common line of contact that is tangential to the movable portion.

Abstract: A component for a centrifugal deaerator for removing gas from a turbomachine air/oil mixture includes a structural part configured to delimit a duct for the flow of the air/oil mixture, and includes a circumferential enclosure for the centrifugal separation of the air/oil mixture, an axial inlet for the air/oil mixture, radial oil outlets, and an outlet for oil-free air. The component includes at least one cellular structure configured to filter the oil while allowing the air to pass and occupying at least a space in the duct.

Abstract: A flat-jet fuel injector for an aircraft turbine engine, comprising a body having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis A, the body comprising a main pipe having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis B substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis A, the two longitudinal ends of the main pipe being connected directly and respectively to longitudinal ends of two secondary pipes having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis C at least substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis A, and being configured to form, respectively, two separate fuel flow inlets intended to meet substantially at the middle of the main pipe which comprises at least one ejection slot for ejecting the fuel jet, wherein at least one of the main and secondary pipes defines a flow area, at least one geometric parameter of which, such as the shape or a dimension, varies along the pipe and/or is different from the same geometric parameter defined by a flow area of another of the pipes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of magnetohydrodynamic generators, and more precisely to such a generator (10) comprising a working fluid flow passage (11) that is defined by a first wall (12) and a second wall (13), an ionizing device (14) for ionizing the working fluid, a pair of arms (15), each connecting together the first and second walls (12, 13) downstream from said ionizing device (14) so as to define, within the flow passage (11), a channel (16) between said arms (15) and said walls (12, 13), said channel (16) being arranged to be traversed by a portion of the working fluid after it has been ionized, a magnet for generating a magnetic field (B) oriented in a direction that is perpendicular to the flow of the working fluid through the channel (16) defined by the pair of arms (15) and said walls (12, 13), and at least one pair of electrodes (17), each of the electrodes (17) in each pair being arranged on a respective side of the channel (16) defined by the pair of arms (15) and said walls (12, 13),

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (12) for the recovery of energy from exhaust gases from at least one turboshaft engine, comprising a turbine (34) fitted rotatably around a recovery shaft (40), adapted to bleed off at least a part (14) of the exhaust gases, known as bleed gases (14), and to expand said bleed gases (14) to become expanded gases (42) at a pressure below atmospheric pressure, a first heat exchanger (44), adapted to use a cold source (45) to cool said expanded gases (42) to become cooled gases (46), and a compressor (36) fitted rotatably around said recovery shaft (40), adapted to compress said cooled gases (46) to atmospheric pressure.