Mtu Aero Engines Ag

Mtu Aero Engines Gmbh

Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v.

Sergio Elorza Gomez

Tim Schneider

Sebastian Mann

Nina Wolfrum

Tobias Froebel

Werner Humhauser

Rudolf Konrad Selmeier

Alexander Halcoussis

Harsimar Sahota

Harald Passrucker

Peter Eibelshaeuser

Ulrich Siller

Helmut Eibl

Axel Mattschas

Roland Matzgeller

Alexander Hergt

Wilfried Schutte

Peter Eibelshauser

Dirk Henrichs

Manfred Dupslaff

Peter Eibelshäuser

Wilfried Schütte

Rudolf Selmeier

The invention relates to a compressor for an engine, wherein the compressor has compressor stages arranged in succession in a flow direction of the compressor and each compressor stage has a rotating blade cascade and a guide vane cascade arranged downstream of the rotating blade cascade and the rotating blade cascade and the guide vane cascade each have an aspect ratio.

Compressor for an engine

The present invention relates to a blade for a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, having a blade airfoil, which has a blade-root-side first profile section and a blade-tip-side second profile section, which is spaced apart from the first profile section in a radial direction, from the first profile section to the second profile section, by a blade airfoil height, wherein a stagger angle of the blade airfoil changes with a height in the radial direction over the first profile section at least over certain portions, wherein, in a first region between a first height and a second, greater height, the change in the stagger angle over the height does not decrease with increasing height at least over certain portions.

Gas turbine blade

The present invention relates to a guide vane, in particular an outlet guide vane and/or a guide vane for a compressor stage of a gas turbine, wherein the vane has a vane blade with a first vane blade portion and a second vane blade portion, and the first vane blade portion can be reversibly rotated in relation to the second vane blade portion about an axis of rotation from a first position to a second position, wherein, in at least one profile portion of the vane blade, the axis of rotation is arranged outside of a profile of the first vane blade portion, and/or a profile of the first vane blade portion has a suction side with a first contour portion and a second contour portion, which, in particular, is adjoined thereto, and a profile of the second vane blade portion has a pressure-side contour portion.

Guide vane

An engine, having a first, second, third and fourth quasi-stage, each with a stator and a downstream rotor, wherein a particular blade/vane solidity in the center section is in the first quasi-stage, at least 1.04 and at most 1.16 for the stator and at least 1.46 and at most 1.67 for the rotor; in the second quasi-stage, at least 1.13 and at most 1.32 for the stator and at least 1.32 and at most 1.61 for the rotor; in the third quasi-stage, at least 1.20 and at most 1.39 for the stator and at least 1.16 and at most 1.41 for the rotor; in the fourth quasi-stage, at least 1.37 and at most 1.63 for the stator and at least 1.15 and at most 1.41 for the rotor.

High pressure compressor for an engine

Described is a method for operating a compressor of a turbomachine, in which, when considered in the direction of a main flow, an, in particular, radially averaged degree of reaction has dropped in a front compressor area from a maximum to a minimum, is held constant or virtually constant across a central compressor area up into a rear compressor area, an, in particular, radially averaged degree of reaction being adjusted in the rear compressors area which is closer to the minimum than to the maximum, and a residual swirl of at least 47&#xb0; is present in the middle section, and a compressor and a turbomachine.

Method for operating a compressor of a turbomachine comprising providing a plurality of stages in a front compressor area, a rear compressor area, and allowing a swirl in the rear compressor area

Disclosed is a method for operating a compressor of a turbomachine, in which, when viewed in the direction of a main flow, a slowly dropping degree of reaction being raised in one compressor area more quickly than previously dropped and the raised degree of reaction then being reduced again in a subsequent compressor area more slowly that it was previously raised, a compressor of a turbomachine including at least one degree of reaction rising more quickly in one compressor area in comparison to adjacent compressor areas with respectively a dropping degree of reaction, whereby a sawtooth-shaped curve of the degree of reaction results, and a turbomachine including a compressor of this type.

Method, compressor and turbomachine

The present invention relates to an axial compressor for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft engine, having at least one rotor blade or guide vane having a blade or vane element, which is arranged in a flow duct, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are joined to each other through a pressure side and a suction side, wherein, a new and novel profile section of the blade or vane element is provided.

Gas turbine axial compressor

A turbomachine, particularly an aircraft engine, having a rotor, which is mounted rotatably around its longitudinal axis in a stator, and which has at least one row of rotating blades, which is formed by a plurality of rotating blades, is disclosed, wherein the stator has at least one abradable layer, and wherein each rotating blade has a blade tip that is lowered radially inward, at least in sections, proceeding from a leading edge on the side of the rotating blades in the direction of a trailing edge on the side of the rotating blades, and with a blade tip region that extends downstream from the leading edge runs into the abradable layer during operation of the turbomachine.

Turbomachine with blades having blade tips lowering towards the trailing edge

A turbomachine including at least one blade-row group that is arranged in the main flow path and at least two rows of blades that are adjacent to each other in the main flow direction, each row having a plurality of blades (), whereby a narrow cross section and a degree of overlap between the blades of the upstream row of blades and the blades of the downstream row of blades vary starting at the center of the main flow path in the direction of at least one main flow limiter.

Turbomachine

A stator vane assembly for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, including a plurality of stator vanes whose airfoil sections form a stagger angle with an axis of rotation of the compressor, which stagger angle varies along a duct height of the stator vane assembly. Along the duct height from the inside to the outside, the stagger angle increases to a local maximum in a second section adjoining a first, radially innermost section, and decreases to an outer local minimum in a third section adjoining this second section and, along the duct height from the inside to the outside, the stagger angle decreases from the initial value to an inner local minimum in the first, radially innermost section and/or increases from the outer local minimum to a final value in a fourth, radially outermost section adjoining the third section.

Gas turbine compressor stator vane assembly

A blade group arrangement for a turbomachine in order to form a blade-row group, whereby a front blade and a rear blade each form an overlapping area that has a contraction ratio of at least 1.2, and it also relates to a turbomachine having such a contraction ratio between a front blade and a rear blade.

Blade group arrangement as well as turbomachine

A turbomachine is disclosed having at least one blade row group, which is situated in a main flow path and has at least two adjacent blade rows, viewed in the main flow direction, each blade row having a plurality of blades, the rear edges of the blades of the upstream blade row and the front edges of the blades of the downstream blade row in the peripheral direction being situated at an edge distance which varies starting from a main flow path center in the direction of at least one main flow limitation, the periphery-side edge distance increasing or decreasing on both sides.

A blade for a blade row of a turbomachine having wired sections, in particular a blade of a compressor rotor blade, as well as a method for wiring sections of such a blade, is disclosed. Sections of a blade are wired in such a way that a first central component of a second section is selected according to at least one central component of a first section.

Blade comprising pre-wired sections

A turbomachine including at least one blade-row group that is arranged in the main flow path and at least two rows of blades that are adjacent to each other in the main flow direction, each row having a plurality of blades, whereby the trailing edges of the blades of the upstream row of blades and the leading edges of the blades of the downstream row of blades are arranged at an axial edge distance that decreases from the center of the main flow path in the direction of at least one main flow limiter.

The present invention relates to a blade of a turbomachine, in particular an adjustable guide blade or vane of a gas turbine, having at least one thickened area () on a pressure side (D) of the blade profile (P), wherein the thickened area () is disposed in a radially outer-lying, housing-side region of the blade (), wherein the thickened area () is designed at a distance from a front edge () and a rear edge () of the blade ().

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Munich, Germany

Sergio Elorza Gomez