Grooved rotor casing system using additive manufacturing method

    公开(公告)号:US11473438B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US16431368

    申请日:2019-06-04

    Abstract: Rotor systems and methods for improved performance with extended range to stall fabricated through the use of additive manufacturing. A rotor has blades that extend to tips and rotates about an axis. A casing fits over the rotor so that the tips are configured to pass proximate the casing when the rotor rotates. The casing channels a flow stream across the rotor. Grooves are defined in the casing and extend longitudinally at an acute angle relative to the axis. The grooves extend a distance upstream from a leading edge of the blades and over at least a portion of the blade tips so that the blade tips are configured to pass across the grooves when the rotor rotates.

    CHARACTERISTIC DISTRIBUTION FOR ROTOR BLADE OF BOOSTER ROTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210381385A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US16892155

    申请日:2020-06-03

    Abstract: A rotor for a turbofan booster section associated with a fan section of a gas turbine engine includes a rotor blade having an airfoil extending in a spanwise direction from 0% span at a root to 100% span at a tip and having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has a plurality of spanwise locations between the root and the tip each having a normalized local maximum thickness. A value of the normalized local maximum thickness decreases from the root to a minimum value and increases from the minimum value to the tip, and the minimum value is within 60% span to 90% span. The rotor includes a rotor disk coupled to the rotor blade configured to be coupled to a shaft or a fan to rotate with the shaft or the fan, respectively, at the same speed as the shaft and the fan.

    CHARACTERISTIC DISTRIBUTION FOR ROTOR BLADE OF BOOSTER ROTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210381382A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US16892152

    申请日:2020-06-03

    Abstract: A rotor for a turbofan booster section associated with a fan section of a gas turbine engine includes a rotor blade having an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge and a mean camber line. The airfoil has a delta inlet blade angle defined as a difference between a local inlet blade angle defined a spanwise location, and a root inlet blade angle defined at the root. The delta inlet blade angle decreases in the spanwise direction from the root to a minimum value at greater than 10% span and from the minimum value, the delta inlet blade angle increases to the tip. The rotor includes a rotor disk coupled to the rotor blade configured to be coupled to the shaft or the fan to rotate with the shaft or the fan, respectively, at the same speed as the shaft and the fan.

    COMPRESSOR SECTION OF GAS TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING SHROUD WITH SERRATED CASING TREATMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20200308970A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16363117

    申请日:2019-03-25

    Abstract: A compressor section includes a shroud surface and a rotor with a blade tip that opposes the shroud surface. The rotor is configured to rotate within the shroud about an axis of rotation. Moreover, the compressor section includes a serration groove that is recessed into the shroud surface. The serration groove includes a forward portion with a forward transition and a forward surface that faces in the downstream direction. The forward transition is convexly contoured between the shroud surface and the forward surface. The serration groove includes a trailing portion with a taper surface and a trailing transition. The taper surface tapers inward as the taper surface extends from the forward surface to the trailing transition. The trailing transition is convexly contoured between the taper surface and the shroud surface.

    Core-protecting fan modules and turbofan engines containing the same

    公开(公告)号:US10670040B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US15439430

    申请日:2017-02-22

    Abstract: Embodiments of a core-protecting fan module are provided, as are embodiments of a turbofan engine containing such a fan module. In an embodiment, the core-protecting fan module contains a nose member, a fan rotor downstream of the nose member, a full span stator downstream of the fan rotor, and a splitter structure downstream of the fan rotor. The fan rotor includes a plurality of fan blades, which extends from a rotor hub and which is angularly spaced about a rotational axis. Certain fundamental angular relationships are observed between the angles formed by rotational axis, the nose member, the fan rotor, and a leading edge of the splitter structure to reduce contaminant ingestion by the core flow path and to promote moisture shedding to reduce susceptibility to icing within the fan module, while further avoiding or minimizing negative impacts to other structural and functional aspects of the turbofan engine.

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