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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
GE Avio S.r.l., Rivalta di Torino, IT;
Davide Torzo, Turin, IT;
Ennio Spano, Turin, IT;
GE AVIO S.R.L., Rivalta di Torino, IT;
Abstract
A low pressure turbine, in particular for a gas turbine engine, extends along an axis, has an annular conduit for guiding a gas flow and is provided with a plurality of stator arrays of blades and a plurality of rotor arrays of blades; the last of the stator arrays, considering the advancement direction of the gas flow, has a plurality of blades, which define a plurality of spaces between them in circumferential direction; the spaces are split by respective splitters into a radially outer conduit and into a radially inner conduit; the radial position of the splitters is in the neighborhood of a radial reference position such that at least one acoustic mode is of the cut-on type in the radially inner conduit.