Blade with corrugated outer surface(s)
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorThomas William Vandeputte
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorThomas William Vandeputte
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A blade includes an airfoil body defined by a concave pressure side outer wall and a convex suction side outer wall that connect along a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade also includes a first corrugated surface extending from the trailing edge to the leading edge on an outer surface of the concave pressure side outer wall, and/or a second corrugated surface extending from the trailing edge to the leading edge on an outer surface of the convex suction side outer wall. The blade acts to reduce flow velocity losses associated with wake mixing by accelerating the mixing process from the source of the wake to minimize inflated unsteady mixing that occurs within a downstream blade row.
A blade comprising:
A computerized method of manufacturing a blade for a turbomachine, the computerized method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing code representative of a blade, the blade physically generated upon execution of the code by a computerized additive manufacturing system, the code comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.