Aircraft Turbine Engine Innovation

 Aircraft Turbine Engine Innovation

 From 1930's of Whittle turbojet core concept till date, turbine engines have undergone a enormous makeover, And a wind turbine or largest offshore wind turbine, Scope of improvement and innovation research remains imminent on the below areas.

 Design and Weight:

1. Engine prairie architecture advancement.
2. Novel alloys / MMC's -Improved metallurgical analysis.
3. Non-Metallics.

 Efficiency-Thermal:

1. Hybrid electric spacecraft propulsion.
2. Highly loaded recip compressor.
3. High OPR.
4. Low emissions vapor combustor.
5. Adaptive Cycles.
6. Constant volume combustion.

 Transfer efficiency:

1. Low Engine inlet losses.
2. Low loss exhausts or turbo back -Variable.
3. Power transmission Distribution.

 Propulsive efficiency:

1. Very high Bypass ratio turbofans.
2. Ultra-high Bypass ratio turbofans.
3. Wake ingestion.
4. Open rotors concept.
5. Distributed propulsion.

 Technologies to be innovated:

1. Hot section materials.
2. Core noise.
3. Next Generation disk material.
4. The highly loaded front block compressors.
5. High-temperature compressor and turbine blades/vanes.
6. Ceramic matrix composites usage.
7. Tip/end wall aerodynamics.
8. Turbine clearance controls.
9. Low NOx combustors.