Patent ID: 8181912

Claim:
An engine pod for an aircraft that features a pod housing with a first and a second side and several fin-shaped vortex generators that are arranged on a first side of the pod housing in such a way that the overall vorticity field generated by said vortex generators extends over an increasing airfoil area in the wingspan direction as the angle of attack increases in order to improve the maximum lift, wherein the foremost point of a first vortex generator lies within a positioning corridor that is situated between two first-side boundary lines, wherein a circumferential engine pod angle phi is measured about a longitudinal axis of the pod housing with the circumferential engine pod angle phi being 0 at a vertical axis of the pod housing, wherein L is a length of the pod housing along a longitudinal axis of the pod housing, wherein a longitudinal pod coordinate X is measured along the longitudinal axis of the pod housing starting from a front end of the pod housing, wherein the point of origin of the first first-side boundary line is the point on the circumference of the engine pod with the circumferential engine pod angle phi=35 degrees and the longitudinal engine pod coordinate X=L/4, the end point of the first first-side boundary line is the point on the circumference of the engine pod with the circumferential engine pod angle phi=25 degrees and the longitudinal engine pod coordinate X=L·⅔, the point of origin of the second first-side boundary line is the point on the circumference of the engine pod with the circumferential engine pod angle phi=90 degrees and the longitudinal engine pod coordinate X=L/4 and the end point of the second first-side boundary line is the point on the circumference of the engine pod with the circumferential engine pod angle phi=55 degrees and the longitudinal engine pod coordinate X=L·⅔, and wherein the first-side boundary line respectively is the shortest line between its point of origin and its end point that extends on the outer circumference of the engine pod.