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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2025
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Aamir Shabbir, Westlake, OH (US);
William J. Solomon, Montgomery, OH (US);
Matthew F. Adam, West Chester, OH (US);
Daniel Allen Wilkin, II, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine compressor airfoil includes a body having a root coupled to a hub or casing of a turbine engine, the body extending in a radial direction from the root to a tip and in an axial direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge, the body defining a pressure side and a suction side opposite the pressure side, a ribbed section extending from the body on the suction side, the ribbed section comprising a plurality of discrete localized riblets, each riblet extending at least 90% of a chord length from the leading edge to the trailing edge at a span-wise location of the airfoil between the root and the tip, and the ribbed section extends 0-20% of a span of the airfoil from the root to the tip.