A variable geometry aerodynamic blade system employs a blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge. At least one shape memory alloy component is integrated in the blade for aerodynamic repositioning of one or both of the leading and trailing edges. At least one heating element interacts with the at least one shape memory alloy component to provide heating for transition between an austenitic and a martensitic phase. The at least one shape memory alloy component is responsive to the at least one heating element to alter one of a camber and twist of the blade responsive to a control signal. A control system is operatively engaged to the at least one heating element, the control system receiving a command signal and outputting the control signal responsive to the command signal.

An aircraft engine comprising a fan, the fan having a diameter D and including a plurality of fan blades, the fan blades having a sweep metric S.sub.tip, each fan blade having a leading edge, and a forward-most portion on the leading edge of each fan blade being in a first reference plane. The aircraft engine further comprises a nacelle, comprising an intake portion forward of the fan, a forward edge on the intake portion being in a second reference plane, wherein the intake portion has a length L measured along an axis of the aircraft engine between the first reference plane and the second reference plane, the aircraft engine having a cruise design point condition M.sub.rel, wherein M.sub.rel is between 0.4 and 0.93, L/D is between 0.2 and 0.45 and S.sub.tip is from −1 to 0.1.

A tip shroud may include a platform to couple to an airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side. A front tip rail and a rear tip rail extend radially from the platform with each including a downstream side, an upstream side, and an origin(s). Each of the downstream side and the upstream side of the rear tip rail and the downstream side of the front tip rail has a shape having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, Z set forth in a respective table and originating at a selected origin. The Cartesian coordinate values are non-dimensional values of from 0% to 100% convertible to distances by multiplying the X, Y, Z values by a minimum rear tip rail X-wise extent expressed in units of distance. The X, Y, Z values are connected by lines to define each respective surface profile.

A blade for an engine includes an airfoil body having a pressure side and a suction side, a base, and a rib located on the pressure side of the airfoil body. The rib includes a radially outer surface inclined radially outwardly with respect to the pressure side of the airfoil body and a scoop formed by the radially outer surface. The radially outer surface is inclined radially outward with respect to a normal axis to the pressure side of the airfoil body. The rib is angled at a positive angle with respect to the platform. An engine for and a method of directing ingestion material in an engine may employ the rib.

A guide vane arrangement configured for use in a turbo pump, wherein the guide vane arrangement includes a first guide vane and a second guide vane, wherein the second guide vane is arranged adjacent to the first guide vane such that a flow channel is defined between a leading surface of the first guide vane and a trailing surface of the second guide vane. The trailing surface of the second guide vane comprises a trailing portion which is arranged adjacent to a trailing edge of the second guide vane and which is arranged at a first angle with respect to a virtual plane defined by a trailing edge of the first guide vane and the trailing edge of the second guide vane, a leading portion which is arranged adjacent to a leading edge of the second guide vane and which is arranged at a second angle with respect to the virtual plane defined by the trailing edge of the first guide vane and the trailing edge of the second guide vane, the second angle being larger than the first angle, and an intermediate portion which is arranged between the trailing portion and the leading portion and which is arranged at a third angle with respect to the virtual plane defined by the trailing edge of the first guide vane and the trailing edge of the second guide vane, the third angle being smaller than the first angle.

A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface. The surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.

A front fan turbomachine includes an annular separating wall having a slat for separating an air flow between a primary flow and a secondary flow, the slat having a leading edge; inlet guide vanes (IGV) for guiding the primary flow and outlet guide vanes (OGV) blades for guiding the secondary flow. The leading edge of the slat has a serrated profile having a succession of teeth and depressions.

An impeller for a centrifugal turbomachine includes: a hub having a small-diameter portion positioned at a first end portion in an axial direction and a large-diameter portion positioned at a second end portion in the axial direction, the large-diameter portion having a greater diameter than the small-diameter portion; and a blade having a first edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the small-diameter portion and a second edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the large-diameter portion, the blade being disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the hub. The impeller is configured such that, when a first radial-directional cross section is a cross section of the impeller at an axial-directional position passing a tip of the first edge, at least a part of the first radial-directional cross section in a blade-height range of 50% or more is inclined downstream in a rotational direction of the impeller with respect to a radial direction.

A morphing airfoil includes a dynamic flexible skin system that is capable of carrying high level aerodynamic (or fluid) pressure loads over a structural surface. The structural surface can morph and bend in response to control inputs to change a lift force without separate movable control surfaces. A plurality of standoff mounts are attached to an inner surface of anisotropic skin. The standoff mounts include through apertures for receiving a flexible stringer. The anisotropic skin is attached to underlying structure through the flexible stringers. The flexible stringers interface with actuated position control ribs and passive compliant support ribs. A control system causes the underlying support structure to move to a desired location which in turn causes the skin to bend and/or flex without exceeding a stress threshold and thus vary the lift and drag distributions along a span of the airfoil without separate control surfaces.

This turbine stator vane extends in the radial direction which intersects the flow direction of steam, and includes a pressure surface facing the upstream side in the flow direction, and a suction surface facing the downstream side in the flow direction. A plurality of grooves are formed in at least the pressure surface, the grooves extending outward in the radial direction toward the downstream side. At the periphery of the grooves in the pressure surface, formed is a hydrophilic uneven region having greater hydrophilic properties than the pressure surface. The downstream-side ends of the plurality of grooves are connected to slits for capturing a liquified component of the steam.