Blade with non-axisymmetric platform
AssigneeSnecma
InventorsJean-Michel Guimbard, Olivier Kueny, Ludovic Pintat
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Abstract
A blade for a turbomachine impeller including an airfoil and at least one platform at one end of the airfoil, the blade configured to be arranged with a plurality of substantially identical blades so as to form a ring, the platform surface having a suction surface profile and a pressure surface profile respectively along the suction surface and the pressure surface. In the blade, the pressure surface profile including a pressure surface recessed part is located axially in an upstream half of the airfoil. Due to this configuration, efficiency of the blade is improved.
Claims19
A blade for a turbomachine impeller, comprising:
- an airfoil including a pressure surface, a suction surface, a trailing edge, a leading edge;
- and
- a platform extending at one of ends of the airfoil in a direction that is globally perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the airfoil;
- wherein
- the blade is configured to be arranged with a plurality of substantially identical blades to form a ring around a ring axis and define therealong upstream and downstream directions, with the ring having the airfoils arranged substantially radially therein;
- adjacent portions of platform surfaces of two adjacent blades located between their respective airfoils define an inter-airfoil surface;
- a suction surface profile is projected on the platform surface at a constant distance from the suction surface;
- a pressure surface profile along the pressure surface is projected on the platform surface at a constant distance from the pressure surface;
- the pressure surface profile includes a pressure surface recessed part, at least 90% of said pressure surface recessed part being contained within a downstream half of the airfoil and at most 10% of said pressure surface recessed part lying in an upstream half of the airfoil;
- most of the inter-airfoil surface is a surface with a shape corresponding to a motion from upstream to downstream of a line segment in a direction parallel to the ring axis, the line segment having a first end point on the suction surface profile and a second end point on the pressure surface profile, and presenting an angle relative to the ring axis;
- and
- the angle is between 60 and 120 degrees.
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