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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2000
Yu-Tai Lee, McLean, VA (US);
Thomas W. Bein, Annapolis, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A centrifugal compressor or pump has a vaneless diffuser within which a radially extending passage is formed between a fixed plate surface and a profile contoured shroud surface establishing a pinch point location of minimum passage area intermediate inlet and outlet ends of the diffuser passage. Convergent and divergent flow portions of the diffuser passage respectively extend to and from the pinch point to establish continuous convergent flow from the inlet end and divergent flow toward the outlet end for exit outflow at a flow angle less than that of a convergent inflow angle from the inlet end imposed along an initial profile segment.