Airframe assembly
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsAndrew J. NEWMAN, Michael YEANDEL
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an airframe assembly comprising an airframe support structure defining an engine void and configured to support a gas turbine engine along an engine axis of the engine void; a thermal enclosure configured to surround the gas turbine within the engine void; a heat exchange channel formed between an outer flow-bounding wall of the engine void and an inner wall defined by the thermal enclosure, configured to convey a cooling flow through the engine void outside of the thermal enclosure for the gas turbine engine; and a heat exchanger mounted to the airframe support structure for heat exchange between the cooling flow and a working fluid provided to the heat exchanger.
Claims15
An airframe assembly comprising:
- an airframe support structure defining an engine void and configured to support a gas turbine engine along an engine axis of the engine void;
- a thermal enclosure configured to surround the gas turbine within the engine void;
- a heat exchange channel formed between an outer flow-bounding wall of the engine void and an inner wall defined by the thermal enclosure, configured to convey a cooling flow through the engine void outside of the thermal enclosure for the gas turbine engine;
- a heat exchanger mounted to the airframe support structure for heat exchange between the cooling flow and a working fluid provided to the heat exchanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.