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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2004
Thomas Richard Henning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Douglas Mickol, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel Edward Mollmann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Harvey Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
Thomas Richard Henning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Douglas Mickol, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel Edward Mollmann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Harvey Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A processor-implemented method of assembling a rotatable machine is provided. The machine includes a plurality of blades that extend radially outwardly from a rotor. The method includes determining a geometric parameter for each blade in a row of blades that is relative to a ratio, R of an inlet area and an outlet area of a predetermined volume defined between each pair of blades, determining an initial sequence map for the row of blades that facilitates minimizing a difference of R between circumferentially adjacent pairs of blades, and iteratively remapping the sequence of the blades to facilitate reducing a moment weight vector sum of the rotor to a value that is less than a predetermined value.