摘要 |
Carnot cycle aircraft engines having a housing having a main air intake and a common discharge nozzle, a central rotor shaft with a central compressor unit supported by struts in the main air intake wherein the compressor unit has a fan unit with hollow fan blades and an air intake to the hollow fan blades and an annular ducted combustion chamber in the housing wherein air compressed in the hollow fan blades is ejected into the combustion chamber wherein the combustion chamber includes a cascade combustor with a series of fuel injectors for isothermal combustion with combustion gases discharged in an annular expansion nozzle with a variable geometry control before being discharged into the common discharge nozzle with air that bypasses the compressor unit and flows between the fan blades to the common discharge nozzle.
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