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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Paul Lurie, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Sherif Alykadry Abdelfattah, Mason, OH (US);
Michael Julian Castillo, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Anthony Louis DiPietro, Jr., Maineville, OH (US);
Aspi Rustom Wadia, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of managing negative incidence in a compressor is provided. The apparatus includes a first row of stationary main vanes, and a second row of stationary auxiliary vanes extending radially inwardly from a stationary casing of the compressor proximate the leading edges of the main vanes. A flow channel is defined between a pressure side of an auxiliary vane of the second row of auxiliary vanes and a suction side of an adjacent main vane of the row of main vanes.