Patent 10583932 was granted and assigned to Rolls-Royce on March, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A gas turbine engine of an aircraft includes: an engine core having a turbine including a lowest pressure rotor stage, a turbine diameter, a fan including a plurality of fan blades extending from a hub, an annular fan face at a leading edge of the fan; wherein a downstream blockage ratio is: