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

• Main Authors: REPP, John, HANSON, David Richard, HAYES, Jeffrey, GUNARAJ, John A, NOLCHEFF, Nick
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.08.2023
• Subjects: BLASTING; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS; POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS; STEAM ENGINES; WEAPONS

A rotor (200) for a compressor includes a hub and a plurality of airfoils (200) 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 (246) 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 (248,250) is less than 97% of the maximum value. The throat dimension (244) at 5% of the span of the adjacent ones of the airfoils is less than 70% of the maximum value.