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Old 14th Feb 2015, 15:30
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A turboprop engine is driving a propeller. One can certainly shroud it (see the Stipa-Caproni as an example). This would reduce tip vortices and might do the efficiency some good, but increase total mass and would not turn it into a turbofan.

A turbofan engine core is driving an enlarged compressor stage consisting of an intake system (reducing the incoming air speed and turning it into pressure), a rotor (adding energy to the airflow), a stator (roughly converting speed to pressure) and a nozzle (converting pressure to speed).
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