Strut for a gas turbine engine

摘要

The strut is for use in a gas turbine engine has body, typically having an airfoil shape, having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The leading edge has at least one gas inlet in direct fluid communication with at least one outlet located in the trailing edge through which gas may be redirected from the leading edge to the trailing edge through the strut for injection back into a wake region downstream of the strut.

主权项

1. A method of reducing wake loss of a strut spanning a gas path of a gas turbine engine, the method comprising:
exposing the strut to a gas path flow; ingesting a portion of gas from said gas path flow into the strut through a leading edge of the strut, relative to the gas path flow; and discharging the ingested gas flow back into the gas path through the trailing edge of the strut, relative to the gas path flow, to increase gas pressure in a wake region and thereby decrease strut wake loss.