Turbomachine with fan(s) for aircraft, with mobile jet nozzle
View Patent ↗A turbomachine for an aircraft including at least one turbine driving rotation of a fan, and a jet nozzle coaxially extending a turbine and creating, with an outlet cone that terminates the turbine, a passage of annular cross section for combustion gases that pass through the turbine. The jet nozzle can be mounted so that it can move between two extreme positions for which under action of a controller, an annular cross section of the passage for the gases is respectively at its minimum or maximum, making it possible to vary the cross section according to phases of operation of the aircraft and distribute thrust between the fan and the jet nozzle.
1. A turbomachine including at least one propeller for an aircraft, comprising:
at least one turbine to drive the propeller in rotation;
a nozzle extending beyond a portion of a nacelle of said propeller and connected in rotation to said portion of said propeller, said nozzle extending coaxially beyond the turbine, creating, with an exhaust cone that terminates the turbine, a passage of annular cross section for combustion gases flowing through the turbine, the nozzle being mounted to be able to move between two end positions at which the annular cross section of the passage is respectively at a minimum or a maximum; and
a controller attached to the nozzle to change a position thereof and to vary the cross section of the passage for the combustion gases depending on functional phases of the aircraft;
wherein, to vary the cross section of the passage for the combustion gases, the nozzle moves, under action of the controller, in translation parallel to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine toward which the exhaust cone of the turbine converges.
2. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller includes actuators connecting a portion of a peripheral nacelle, which surrounds the turbine, to the nozzle.
3. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the control actuators are arranged distributed at regular angular intervals around the nozzle, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the turbomachine.
4. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 2 , wherein, when the nozzle moves in translation between the end positions, a cylindrical wall of the nozzle remains in contact with a cylindrical wall of the nacelle.
5. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 2 , wherein, when the nozzle moves in translation from the end position of a minimum passage cross section to the end position of a maximum passage cross section, an annular opening is created between the nacelle and the nozzle.
6. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller of the nozzle includes a shape-memory material having two stable states depending on temperature, corresponding to the end positions of the nozzle at which the passage cross section is at the minimum or the maximum.