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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2022
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
David A. Topol, West Hartford, CT (US);
RTX CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a propulsor section, a compressor section including a first compressor and a second compressor, and a turbine section including a first turbine and a second turbine. The first compressor includes a plurality of arrays of airfoils defining a plurality of compressor stages. A number of airfoils in each downstream array of the plurality of arrays is a factor (F) of a number of airfoils in a respective immediately upstream array of the plurality of arrays. The factor (F) is between 1.19 and 1.55 for each of the downstream arrays of the first compressor.