General Electric Company

Sungho Yoon

Vittorio Michelassi

Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina

Ivan Malcevic

Giridhar Jothiprasad

John David Stampfli

Rudolf Konrad Selmeier

Davide Giacché

Ajay Keshava Rao

A compressor is provided including a compressor end-wall having a casing and a hub. The compressor further includes at least one set of rotor blades, one set of stator blades, and a plurality of end-wall treatments spaced apart from each other, formed in an interior surface of at least one of the casing and hub, and facing a tip of the rotor blade or stator blade. Each end-wall treatment includes a forward recess portion extending along a first axis and an aft recess portion extending along a second axis different than the first axis. The aft recess portion is joined to the corresponding forward recess portion via an intersection portion which is inclined relative to at least one of the first axis, and the second axis. The aft recess portion and/or the forward recess portion are bent from the intersection portion and inclined relative to an axial direction of the compressor.

Compressor end-wall treatment having a bent profile

A compressor for a gas turbine engine including one or more endwall treatments for controlling leakage flow and circumferential flow non-uniformities in the compressor. The compressor includes a casing, a hub, a flow path formed between the casing and the hub, a plurality of blades positioned in the flow path, and one or more circumferentially varying end-wall treatments formed in an interior surface of at least one of the casing or the hub. Each of the one or more circumferentially varying endwall treatments circumferentially varying based on their relative position to an immediately adjacent upstream bladerow. Each of the one or more endwall treatments is circumferentially varied in at least one of placement relative to the immediately adjacent upstream bladerow or in geometric parameters defining each of the plurality of circumferentially varying endwall treatments. Additionally disclosed is an engine including the compressor.

Circumferentially varying axial compressor endwall treatment for controlling leakage flow therein

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Munich, Germany

Sungho Yoon