Honeywell International Inc.

David Richard Hanson

John Repp

Nick A Nolcheff

John A Gunaraj

Jeffrey Hayes

Bruce David Reynolds

Michael T Barton

Mahmoud Mansour

Yoseph Gebre-Giorgis

William B Schuster

Shailesh Kumar

Jyotichandra Jingade

Darrell K James

John Gunaraj

Mohammed Qizar

Swarna Sinha Srinath

Michael Barton

A gas turbine engine includes a rotatable component, and an engine casing disposed about the rotatable component. The engine casing includes a casing treatment having a plurality of grooves and a plurality of acoustic chambers. Each of the plurality of grooves is defined in the engine casing with a groove depth, and each of the plurality of acoustic chambers has an acoustic chamber depth based on the groove depth. Two of the plurality of grooves are associated with one of the plurality of acoustic chambers, one of the plurality of grooves is associated with a second one of the plurality of acoustic chambers, and the one of the plurality of acoustic chambers has an acoustic configuration that is different than the second one of the plurality of acoustic chambers.

Acoustic engine casing for gas turbine engine

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. The throat dimension between 90% of the span and the tip of the adjacent ones of the plurality of airfoils has a first value that is less than 70% of the maximum value.

Throat distribution for a rotor and rotor blade having camber and location of local maximum thickness distribution

A rotor blade for a compressor of a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil extending from a root to a tip and having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has a span that extends from 0% at the root to 100% at the tip and a mean camber line that extends from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil has a total camber distribution that increases from the root to a maximum value of total camber between 5% of the span and 20% of the span.

A compressor section includes a shroud surface and a rotor with a blade tip that opposes the shroud surface. The rotor is configured to rotate within the shroud about an axis of rotation. Moreover, the compressor section includes a serration groove that is recessed into the shroud surface. The serration groove includes a forward portion with a forward transition and a forward surface that faces in the downstream direction. The forward transition is convexly contoured between the shroud surface and the forward surface. The serration groove includes a trailing portion with a taper surface and a trailing transition. The taper surface tapers inward as the taper surface extends from the forward surface to the trailing transition. The trailing transition is convexly contoured between the taper surface and the shroud surface.

Compressor section of gas turbine engine including shroud with serrated casing treatment

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.

Methods and apparatuses are provided for a compressor. The compressor includes a first stage having a first rotor and a first stator, and a second stage downstream from the first stage in a direction of a fluid flow. The compressor also includes a secondary flow system that directs fluid from the second stage into the first stator to improve at least one of a performance and a stability of the compressor.

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