Patent classifications
F04D29/682
Passive transpirational flow acoustically lined guide vane
A passive transpirational flow acoustic liner assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a guide vane assembly and a conduit configured to deliver airflow received from the guide vane. The guide vane assembly includes an airfoil having a transpirational flow acoustic liner. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet defining a portion of an outer surface of the airfoil and having a plurality of first apertures, a segmented member coupled to the face sheet and having a plurality of chambers in fluid communication with the outer surface via the plurality of first apertures, a backing sheet having a plurality of apertures and being coupled to the segmented member such that the segmented member is positioned between the face sheet and the backing sheet, and a plenum coupled to the backing sheet opposite the segmented member and fluidly connected to the conduit.
STABILIZER OF A COMPRESSOR
The invention relates to a stabilizer of a compressor, in particular of a radial compressor or diagonal compressor. The stabilizer comprises a first annular stabilizer chamber which encloses a main flow channel in the intake region of a compressor wheel. The stabilizer further comprises a second annular stabilizer chamber which encloses the first annular stabilizer chamber. The invention further relates to a compressor, in particular a radial compressor or diagonal compressor, comprising the stabilizer according to the invention, and to a turbomachine, in particular a turbocharger, comprising the compressor.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM UTILIZING ENHANCED COMPRESSOR
A system for an aircraft is provided. The system includes a compressing device and at least one heat exchanger. The compressing device includes a compressor, a turbine downstream of the compressor, and an electric motor coupled to the turbine and the compressor. Further, the compressor includes a high rotor backsweep. The system can be an air conditioning system.
Group of blade rows
The present invention relates to a blade row group arrangeable in a main flow path of a fluid-flow machine and including N adjacent member blade rows firmly arranged relative to one another in both the meridional direction and the circumferential direction, with the number N of the member blade rows being greater than/equal to 2 and (i) designating the running index with values between 1 and N, with a front member blade row (i) as well as a rear member blade row (i+1) being provided, and with the blade row group having two main flow path boundaries. It is provided that there is a gap between one blade end of at least one blade of at least one of the member blade rows and at least one of the two main flow path boundaries.
GAS TURBINE ENGINE FAN ASSEMBLY
A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine. The assembly includes a hub and a plurality of blades projecting from the hub. The hub includes an inlet aperture located adjacent a blade root. The inlet aperture is in fluid communication with a passage extending along at least part of a span of the blade, and communicates with an outlet provided on an exterior of the blade, radially outwardly of the inlet.
PASSIVE TRANSPIRATIONAL FLOW ACOUSTICALLY LINED GUIDE VANE
A passive transpirational flow acoustic liner assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a guide vane assembly and a conduit configured to deliver airflow received from the guide vane. The guide vane assembly includes an airfoil having a transpirational flow acoustic liner. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet defining a portion of an outer surface of the airfoil and having a plurality of first apertures, a segmented member coupled to the face sheet and having a plurality of chambers in fluid communication with the outer surface via the plurality of first apertures, a backing sheet having a plurality of apertures and being coupled to the segmented member such that the segmented member is positioned between the face sheet and the backing sheet, and a plenum coupled to the backing sheet opposite the segmented member and fluidly connected to the conduit.
CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR DIFFUSER PASSAGE BOUNDARY LAYER CONTROL
A centrifugal compressor diffuser (42) includes a plurality of diffuser flow passages (22) extending through an annular diffuser housing (20) and circumferentially bounded by diffuser vanes (23) and axially bounded by forward and aft walls (101, 100). A diffuser boundary layer bleed (96) for the passages may include boundary layer bleed apertures (106) or slots (130) disposed through the forward wall (101) and a downstream facing wall (142) canted at an acute cant angle to a downstream diffuser airflow direction (103) in the passages. Diffuser bleed flow (112) is bled from a diffuser boundary layer. Boundary layer bleed apertures can be located downstream of throat sections (28) of the flow passages near pressure sides of the vanes. A centrifugal compressor (18) may include the diffuser surrounding an annular centrifugal compressor impeller (32) and apparatus for flowing impeller bleed flow (102) from a radial clearance between an impeller tip (36) and a diffuser annular inlet (27) with diffuser bleed flow either mixed or separately to cool a turbine (16).
Compressor flowpath
A compressor section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a low pressure compressor including a plurality of rotor blades arranged about an axis, a high pressure compressor, and a core flowpath passing through the low pressure compressor. The core flowpath at the low pressure compressor defines an inner diameter and an outer diameter relative to the axis. The outer diameter has a slope angle relative to the axis.
METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR A TURBOCHARGER
Various methods and systems are provided for a variable geometry ported shroud for a turbocharger. In one example, a compressor system includes a compressor housing defining an air inlet, a shroud, and a bypass passage, a compressor wheel housed in the compressor housing and surrounded by the shroud, only a single port passing through the shroud and fluidically coupled to the bypass passage, and a ring configured to move axially to adjust a restriction of the port.
Compressor bleed self-recirculating system
A compressor for a gas turbine engine having a bleed air recirculation system includes a plurality of bleed holes extending through the shroud at a first axial location thereon substantially adjacent the blade tips. The bleed holes have a closed outer perimeter along their complete length. An annular bleed cavity surrounds the shroud and is in communication with outlet openings of the bleed holes. The bleed holes provide communication between the main gas flow passage and the bleed cavity. The bleed cavity includes exit passages having outlets disposed in the shroud at a second axial location which is upstream of both the first axial location and the leading edge of the blades of the rotor. Bleed air is passively bled from the main gas flow passage via the bleed holes, recirculated through the bleed cavity and re-injected back into the main gas flow passage at the second axial location.