Patent classifications
F02C3/02
TAILORING ROTOR BLADE SECTOR CONFIGURATIONS TO TUNE GAS TURBINE ENGINE BLADED ROTOR
An apparatus is provided for a gas turbine engine. This apparatus includes a bladed rotor rotatable about an axis. The bladed rotor includes a rotor disk and a plurality of rotor blades projecting radially out from the rotor disk. The bladed rotor are divided into a plurality of circumferential sectors about the axis. Each of the circumferential sectors have a common circumferential length about the axis. Each of the circumferential sectors includes a subset of two or more of the rotor blades. The circumferential sectors include a first sector and a second sector. The first sector has a first rotor configuration. The second sector has a second rotor configuration that is different than the first rotor configuration.
Gas turbine engine compressor arrangement
A gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a propulsor section including a propulsor, a core engine, a gear arrangement that drives the propulsor. A compressor section includes a low pressure compressor and a high pressure compressor. A turbine section includes a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine. An overall pressure ratio is provided by the combination of a pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor and a pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor, and greater than 40. The pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor is between 7 and 15, and the pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor is between 4 and 8.
EFFICIENT GAS TURBINE ENGINE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION
A gas turbine engine that has improved fuel burn provides operability and/or maintenance requirements when installed on an aircraft. The gas turbine engine is provided with a core compressor that includes twelve, thirteen or fourteen rotor stages. The gas turbine engine has a ratio of a core compressor aspect ratio divided by a core compressor pressure ratio is in the range of from 0.03 to 0.09. This results in an optimum balance between installation benefits, operability, maintenance requirements and engine efficiency when the gas turbine engine is installed on an aircraft.
EFFICIENT GAS TURBINE ENGINE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION
A gas turbine engine that has improved fuel burn provides operability and/or maintenance requirements when installed on an aircraft. The gas turbine engine is provided with a core compressor that includes twelve, thirteen or fourteen rotor stages. The gas turbine engine has a ratio of a core compressor aspect ratio divided by a core compressor pressure ratio is in the range of from 0.03 to 0.09. This results in an optimum balance between installation benefits, operability, maintenance requirements and engine efficiency when the gas turbine engine is installed on an aircraft.
Gas turbine engine compressor arrangement
A gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a propulsor section including a propulsor, a core engine, a gear arrangement that drives the propulsor. A compressor section includes a first compressor and a second compressor. A turbine section includes a first turbine and a second turbine. An overall pressure ratio is provided by the combination of a pressure ratio across the first compressor and a pressure ratio across the second compressor, and greater than 40. The pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor is no more than 15, and the pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor is at least 4.