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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2009
Ya-tien Chiu, Greer, SC (US);
Venkata S. P. Chaluvadi, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Peter S. King, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Ya-Tien Chiu, Greer, SC (US);
Venkata S. P. Chaluvadi, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Peter S. King, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A compressor of a turbine engine, the compressor including stator blades with shrouds, the shrouds being surrounded, at least in part, by rotating structure and forming a shroud cavity therebetween, the compressor including: a plurality of tangential flow inducers disposed within the shroud cavity; wherein each tangential flow inducer comprises a surface disposed on the rotating structure that is configured such that, when rotated, induces a tangential directional component to and/or increases the velocity of a flow of leakage exiting the shroud cavity.
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