Abstract: A gas turbine engine, including an accessory system cooling system comprising a cooling system inlet and a duct in fluid communication with the cooling system inlet; and a turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section, the turbomachine defining a working gas flowpath and further comprising a cooled cooling air (CCA) system, the CCA system comprising a cold side bleed assembly and a CCA heat exchanger in thermal communication with the cold side bleed assembly, wherein the cold side bleed assembly defines an inlet in fluid communication with the duct of the accessory system cooling system at a location downstream of the cooling system inlet.

Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes a core engine and a bottoming cycle where a working fluid is circulated within a closed circuit. A first heat exchanger is used to transfer heat from a portion of thermal energy from the exhaust gas flow to working fluid of the bottoming cycle. A fuel/working fluid heat exchanger provides the cryogenic fuel to cool the working fluid exhausted from a bottoming turbine and before a bottoming compressor.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an annular combustion chamber and an injector ring. The annular combustion chamber is disposed about an axis and has first and second axial ends and radially inner and outer walls. The injector ring is disposed about the axis at the first axial end and is configured to introduce a hydrogen and gas mixture into the combustion chamber. The injector ring includes gas feed conduits that open into a central mixing region, a hydrogen manifold cavity that has first and second isolated compartments, first hydrogen feed conduits that extend off of the first isolated compartment and open into the central mixing region, and second hydrogen feed conduits that extend off of the second isolated compartment and open into the central mixing region.

Abstract: An aircraft engine including a core casing extending circumferentially about an axis and defining a core flow passage, a nacelle located radially outward from and around the casing, and a bypass passage defined between the nacelle and the casing. A mixer includes a peripheral wall having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge attached to the casing. A first mixer portion and a second mixer portion are circumferentially spaced apart and respectively extend away from the leading edge from a first location to a second location. The first and second mixer portions respectively have a first and second stiffness, the first stiffness greater than the second stiffness and greater than a stiffness of an upstream portion of the wall extending from the first mixer portion at the first location toward the leading edge.

Abstract: A fuel injector cooling system, comprising: a blower including a blower inlet and a blower outlet; a valve including a valve inlet and a valve outlet; a duct defining a flow passage between the blower outlet and the valve inlet; a fuel injector including a flange and a valve housing extending radially outward from the flange, wherein the valve housing defines an outer surface of the fuel injector; and a cooling jacket defining an inner surface and a cooling air inlet in fluid communication with the flow passage, wherein the cooling jacket defines a cooling flow passage between the inner surface of the cooling jacket and the outer surface of the valve housing, wherein the cooling flow passage is in fluid communication with the flow passage.

Abstract: A variable area nozzle assembly includes a fixed nozzle structure, a translating sleeve, a plurality of nozzle segments, and a plurality of segment hoop locking assemblies. The translating sleeve is movably mounted to the fixed nozzle structure. The translating sleeve is translatable along the nozzle axis within the fixed nozzle structure between and to a first axial position and a second axial position. The plurality of nozzle segments form a variable area nozzle extending circumferentially about the nozzle axis. Each nozzle segment of the plurality of nozzle segments is pivotably mounted to the translating sleeve. The plurality of nozzle segments includes a first nozzle segment and a second nozzle segment. The plurality of segment hoop locking assemblies include a first segment hoop locking assembly. The first segment hoop locking assembly includes a hoop crank.

Abstract: Apparatuses and systems are provided herein for unducted propulsion systems. The system includes an aft housing for low drag for high subsonic sustained flight. A plurality of blades are affixed to the aft housing, wherein the housing defines a flowpath curve extending from the axial extent of the aft blade root to the aft end of the aft housing. The flowpath curve is described by an axial direction parallel to an axis of rotation and a radius from the axis of rotation. The flowpath curve includes first point having a first radius where the radius reaches a maximum aft of the aft blade root and a second point forward of the first point having a second radius where the radius stops decreasing. The ratio of the first radius to the second radius is greater than or equal to 1.081.

Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes at least two gas turbine engines and a bottoming cycle system where a working fluid is circulated within a closed circuit that includes a bottoming compressor section and a bottoming turbine section. Each of the at least two gas turbine engines include a primary heat exchanger for communicating thermal energy into the working fluid of the bottoming cycle.

Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a forward liner segment; an aft liner segment disposed downstream from the forward liner segment relative to a direction of flow through the combustor, the forward and aft liner segments at least partially defining a combustion chamber; and an intermediate member disposed at least partially between the forward and aft liner segments and extending in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A combustion liner assembly includes metal liner having a hot side and a cold side, a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) liner tile configured to provide a heat shield for the metal liner, the CMC liner tile having a different thermal conductivity than the metal liner, and a connection device configured to attach the CMC liner tile to the metal liner. The connection device accommodates the different thermal conductivity of the CMC liner tile and the metal liner. The connection device is free from a radial fastener exposed to hot gases on the hot side of the metal liner, and the connection device allows radial movement and axial movement between the metal liner and the CMC liner tile.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of operating a combustion system to attenuate combustion dynamics. The method includes flowing, via a compressor section, an overall supply of air to the combustion system; flowing, via a fuel supply system, an overall flow of fuel to the combustion system; flowing, to a first fuel nozzle of the combustion system, a first supply of fuel defining a richer burning fuel-air mixture at the first fuel nozzle; flowing, to a second fuel nozzle of the combustion system, a second supply of fuel defining a leaner burning fuel-air mixture at the second fuel nozzle; and igniting the richer burning fuel-air mixture and the leaner burning fuel-air mixture to produce an overall fuel-air ratio at a combustion chamber of the combustion system.

Abstract: A panel of a combustor includes: an outer surface that is opposed to an inner peripheral surface of a shell so as to be spaced apart from the inner peripheral surface; and an inner surface that defines a combustion chamber extending in a flow direction from an upstream side of the combustor to a downstream side of the combustor. At least part of a neutral plane between the outer surface and the inner surface has a planar shape or a curved surface shape which extends in a circumferential direction and whose curvature is smaller than a curvature of a virtual circular arc that is concentric with the inner peripheral surface of the shell.

Abstract: A starter system for a gas turbine engine in, for example, a hybrid electric engine is provided. The hybrid electric engine may include the gas turbine engine, an electric machine, and an electrical energy storage. The starter system may include the electric machine, and a low-pressure shaft of the gas turbine engine may be mechanically coupled to a rotor of the electric machine. The electrical energy storage may electrically power the electrical machine and receive electrical power from the electrical machine. In addition, a clutch may selectively couple the low-pressure shaft to a high-pressure shaft of the gas turbine engine. The clutch may, when engaged, transfer mechanical power from the low-pressure shaft, which is mechanically coupled to the electric machine, to the high-pressure shaft. Further, the clutch may disengage if a rotational speed of the high-pressure shaft exceeds a rotational speed of the low-pressure shaft.

Abstract: A combustion section includes a casing that defines a diffusion chamber. The combustion section further includes a combustion liner that is disposed within the diffusion chamber and that defines a combustion chamber. The combustion liner is spaced apart from the casing such that a passageway is defined between the combustion liner and the casing. The combustion section further includes a fuel cell assembly that is disposed in the passageway. The fuel cell assembly includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells. The plurality of fuel cells extend from an inlet end in fluid communication with the diffusion chamber to an outlet end extending through the combustion liner and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A fan case assembly of a turbo fan engine including a tubular fan case surrounding a fan of the turbo fan engine from an outside in a radial direction. The assembly also includes a tubular panel set covering an inner peripheral surface of the fan case and including panels lined up in an axial direction of the turbo fan engine and at least one elastic body compressed by two members selected from the fan case and the panels.

Abstract: A system includes a top cycle and a bottoming cycle. The top cycle is an engine having a combustor. The combustor receives a fuel. The combustor is capable of igniting a mix of fuel and a gas, and creating products of combustion. Products of the combustion pass downstream through a first heat exchanger. The bottoming cycle has a bottoming cycle working fluid receiving a first amount of heat through the first heat exchanger. The bottoming cycle produces work from the first amount of heat. The bottoming cycle working fluid then passes through a second heat exchanger and rejects a second lesser amount of heat. A source housing fuel is delivered to the combustor via the second heat exchanger. The bottoming cycle working fluid provides heat to the fuel being delivered to the combustor. The source is configured to maintain the fuel at a temperature equal to or below 0° F.

Abstract: A combustor of a gas turbine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an outer wall surrounding a combustion chamber; a liner located inside the outer wall and facing the combustion chamber; and a fixture that attaches the liner to the outer wall in a state where there is a gap between the outer wall and the liner. The fixture includes: a shaft portion penetrating the outer wall; a head supporting the liner; and an air passage that is in the fixture, is connected to the combustion chamber, and has a shape corresponding to a shape of the head.

Abstract: A disk engine and system configured to provide high power at a reduced axial length is disclosed herein. The disk engine includes a radial compressor, a compressor discharge manifold positioned circumferentially about compressor, a combustion chamber positioned within the discharge manifold and a radial turbine positioned radially inward of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A dome-deflector assembly for a gas turbine includes a dome, a deflector, and at least one dome-deflector connecting assembly that includes a connecting member connecting the dome and the deflector together with a cavity being defined between the dome and the deflector. The connecting member extends through the deflector and has a first end arranged at a hot surface side of the deflector and a second end arranged to connect with the dome. The dome-deflector connecting assembly is configured to provide a flow of cooling air from the cavity to the hot surface side of the deflector to cool the first end of the connecting member on the hot surface side of the deflector.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and together defining a working gas flowpath, the turbomachine including an acoustic liner, the acoustic liner having: a flowpath wall exposed to the working gas flowpath, the flowpath wall defining an opening; and a duct wall extending from the flowpath wall defining at least in part an acoustic passage defining a volume, the acoustic passage operable to attenuate noise through the working gas flowpath during an operating condition of the gas turbine engine.