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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sumeet Soni, Karnataka, IN;
Rohit Chouhan, Karnataka, IN;
Ross James Gustafson, Greenville, SC (US);
Matthew Peter Scoffone, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbomachine includes a plurality of nozzles, and each nozzle has an airfoil. The turbomachine has opposing walls defining a pathway into which a fluid flow is receivable to flow through the pathway. A throat distribution is measured at a narrowest region in the pathway between adjacent nozzles, at which adjacent nozzles extend across the pathway between the opposing walls to aerodynamically interact with the fluid flow. The airfoil defines the throat distribution, and the throat distribution is defined by values set forth in Table 1, where the throat distribution values are within a +/−10% tolerance of the values set forth in Table 1. The throat distribution reduces aerodynamic loss and improves aerodynamic loading on each airfoil.