System and method for turbomachine with local vortex generator array

    公开(公告)号:US12286896B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-29

    申请号:US18408260

    申请日:2024-01-09

    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a shroud and a hub spaced apart from the shroud to channel an airflow along a direction. The turbomachine includes a plurality of airfoils coupled between the shroud and the hub. At least one airfoil of the plurality of airfoils includes a leading edge spaced apart from a trailing edge in the direction of the airflow and a pressure side opposite a suction side. The at least one airfoil has a chord that is 0% chord at the leading edge and 100% chord at the trailing edge, and a span defined as 0% at the hub and 100% at the shroud. The turbomachine includes at least one local vortex generator array defined onto the hub between 0% chord to −10% chord at 0% span so as to extend forward of the leading edge.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AIR INJECTION PASSAGEWAY INTEGRATION AND OPTIMIZATION IN TURBOMACHINERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220010682A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US16927161

    申请日:2020-07-13

    Abstract: Systems and methods for air injection passageway integration and optimization in turbomachinery using surface vortex generation. An airfoil including a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side, and is configured to influence an airflow as it passes from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil defines an aerodynamic passageway having an inlet on the pressure side and an outlet on the suction side to deliver air from the airflow through the airfoil to the suction side. The outlets are configured to inject the air at areas on either airfoil side targeted due to their propensity to generate undesirable boundary layer growth and associated flow losses. Outlet may also be included in the hub and the shroud of the turbomachine.

    CHARACTERISTIC DISTRIBUTION FOR ROTOR BLADE OF BOOSTER ROTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210381380A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US16892145

    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 from a root to a tip and having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has a plurality of chord lines spaced apart in a spanwise direction. Each chord line of the plurality of chords lines is defined between the leading edge and the trailing edge and has a normalized chord value. From the hub, the normalized chord value decreases to a minimum value between about 20% to about 90% span and increases from the minimum value 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 fan.

    THROAT DISTRIBUTION FOR A ROTOR AND ROTOR BLADE HAVING CAMBER AND LOCATION OF LOCAL MAXIMUM THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION

    公开(公告)号:US20200158128A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-21

    申请号:US16198279

    申请日:2018-11-21

    Abstract: A rotor for a compressor includes a hub and a plurality of airfoils having a root, a tip opposite the root and a span that extends from 0% at the root to 100% at the tip. Each of the airfoils is coupled to the hub at the root and is spaced apart from adjacent ones of the airfoils over the span by a throat dimension. The throat dimension has a maximum value at a spanwise location between 60% of the span and 90% of the span of the adjacent ones of the airfoils, and at 10% of the span of the adjacent ones of the airfoils above or below the spanwise location of the maximum value, the throat dimension is less than 97% of the maximum value. The throat dimension at 5% of the span of the adjacent ones of the airfoils is less than 70% of the maximum value.

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