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US 8,262,340 B2Granted
Turbomachine exerting dynamic influence on the flow
AssigneeRolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
InventorVolker Guemmer
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Abstract
A turbomachine includes at least one rotor 1 featuring a hub and one stator 2, with a casing 5 confining the flow through the rotor 1 and the stator 2 to the outside. It also includes running-gap adjacent hub and casing surfaces LNGO, with openings being provided along the circumference on at least one running-gap adjacent hub and casing surface LNGO which form at least one dynamically operating supply point DAV which is connected via a least one line 6 to at least one opening on a blade-passage confining surface SKO.
Claims18
A turbomachine comprising:
- at least one rotor;
- at least one stator;
- a hub;
- a casing, the hub and casing confining a flow through the rotor and the stator to the inside and to the outside;
- running-gap adjacent surfaces on at least one of the hub and the casing directly opposite and facing a free end of a blade row, a plurality of separate independent openings positioned on and along a blade row free end facing circumference of at least one of the running-gap adjacent hub and casing surfaces which form a plurality of dynamically operating supply points, each of the separate independent openings directly facing, and opening independently of one another to, the free end of the blade row, with centroids of the separate independent openings being spaced from each other by an integer multiple of a blade spacing at the free end of a respective blade row, and all of the separate independent openings being arranged such that they have a dynamic pressure synchronous with one another and a blade passing frequency;
- the separate independent openings each having a circumferential length of significantly less than one half of one rotor blade pitch;
- at least one opening on a blade-passage confining surface;
- and
- at least one line connecting the dynamically operating supply points to the at least one opening on the blade-passage confining surface.
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A turbomachine comprising:
- at least one rotor;
- at least one stator;
- a hub;
- a casing, the hub and casing confining a flow through the rotor and the stator to the inside and to the outside;
- running-gap adjacent surfaces at at least one of the hub and the casing,
- a plurality of separate openings positioned along a circumference of at least one of the running-gap adjacent hub and casing surfaces which form a plurality of dynamically operating supply points;
- at least one opening on a blade-passage confining surface;
- and
- at least one line connecting the at least one dynamically operating supply points to the at least one opening on the blade-passage confining surface;
- wherein at least one of the separate openings of the dynamically operating supply points is provided as a localized group of openings, with the localized group separated from an adjacent separate opening by a distance greater than a spacing between any openings within the localized group.
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A turbomachine comprising:
- at least one rotor;
- at least one stator;
- a hub;
- a casing, the hub and casing confining a flow through the rotor and the stator to the inside and to the outside;
- running-gap facing surfaces on at least one of the hub and the casing directly opposite and facing a free end of a blade row, the running-gap facing surface being a radially outer wall surface if on the hub and a radially inner wall surface if on the casing, such wall surfaces forming a portion of a main flow path through the turbomachine, a plurality of separate independent openings positioned on and along a blade row free end facing circumference of the at least one of the running-gap adjacent outer wall hub and the running-gap adjacent inner wall casing surfaces, the plurality of separate independent openings, separated from each other by at least one of the running-gap facing outer wall hub and inner wall casing surfaces, forming a plurality of dynamically operating supply points, each of the separate independent openings directly facing, and opening independently of one another to, the free end of the blade row, with centroids of the separate independent openings being spaced from each other by an integer multiple of a blade spacing at the free end of a respective blade row, and all of the separate independent openings being arranged such that they have a dynamic pressure synchronous with one another and a blade passing frequency;
- the separate independent openings each having a circumferential length of siqnificantly less than one half of one rotor blade pitch;
- at least one opening on a blade-passage confining surface;
- and
- at least one line connecting the dynamically operating supply points to the at least one opening on the blade-passage confining surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.