Aircraft gas turbine engine impeller with a trailing edge that is non-linear or angled or irregularly-shaped
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsJason Nichols, Hien Duong, Hong Yu
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AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsJason Nichols, Hien Duong, Hong Yu
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A centrifugal compressor assembly of a gas turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The centrifugal compressor assembly includes an impeller having a hub, vanes and a shroud surrounding the hub and the vanes to form a flow path from an inducer portion at an upstream side of the impeller to an exducer portion at an impeller exit. A diffuser is configured to direct compressed air from the impeller exit to a downstream combustor. The diffuser includes a diffuser ring proximate to the impeller exit. Each vane includes, at the impeller exit, a trailing edge which is at least one of non-linear and angled. The shroud includes a sloped trailing edge portion adjacent to the trailing edge of each vane, and the diffuser ring includes a sloped surface adjacent to the sloped trailing edge portion of the shroud.
A centrifugal compressor assembly of a gas turbine engine of an aircraft, the centrifugal compressor assembly comprising:
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