Turbine Engine Technology
Abstract
This project develops technology to increase turbine engine operational reliability, durability, mission flexibility, and performance, while reducing weight, fuel consumption, and cost of ownership. Analytical and experimental areas of emphasis are fans and compressors, high temperature combustors, turbines, internal flow systems, controls, augmentor and exhaust systems, integrated power and thermal management systems, engine inlet integration, mechanical systems, and structural design. This project supports the Integrated Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine (VAATE) program, which is a joint DoD agency and industry effort to focus turbine propulsion technology on national needs. The program plan reflects the technology base support for VAATE activity applicable to global responsive strike, capable unmanned war-fighting, tactical and global mobility, responsive space lift, and persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). A portion of this project supports adaptive cycle technologies. This effort develops component technology for an adaptive cycle engine architecture that provides optimized performance/fuel efficiency for widely varying mission needs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 623066_0602203F_2_3600_PB_2011
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