Acoustic flow straightener for turbojet engine fan casing
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a structural or non-structural turbojet engine fan casing connecting arm that also acts as a flow straightener downstream of the fan rotor. Its distinctive feature is that it is constructed to form an acoustic attenuator. In particular, it comprises a closed cavity and perforations on one of the faces so as to form a Helmholtz resonator. The arm forms part of the intermediate casing.
1. A turbojet engine fan casing connecting arm that acts as a flow straightener downstream of a fan rotor, said arm extending between a nacelle that surrounds a fan casing and an internal casing for a primary flow of the turbojet engine, said arm being constructed to form an acoustic attenuator and comprising:
an extrados face and an intrados face defining a cavity wherein at least one of the extrados or intrados faces defines perforations through one of the extrados or intrados faces so as to form a Helmholtz resonator inside said cavity, wherein the cavity is extended by a closed pocket housed in the nacelle that surrounds the fan casing, wherein said closed pocket element do not have any openings except for a channel communicating with said cavity.
2. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 in which the perforations are formed on the intrados face of the arm.
3. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the perforations are formed on an upper part of the arm.
4. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the perforations have a diameter smaller than 1 mm.
5. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the perforations have a diameter smaller than 0.5 mm.
6. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a degree of perforation in perforated regions represents between 5 and 10% of a total area of the arm.
7. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 , comprising at least one internal reinforcing element defining a hole.
8. A bypass turbojet engine intermediate casing comprising, at least in part, radial arms as claimed in claim 1 .
9. A turbojet engine comprising a fan and structural connecting arms as claimed in claim 1 .
10. The turbojet engine as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the arms form part of an intermediate casing.
11. The connecting arm as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said closed pocket in said nacelle is free of any opening communicating with a secondary air flow.