Compressor flowpath
View Patent ↗A compressor section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a low pressure compressor including a plurality of rotor blades arranged about an axis, a high pressure compressor, and a core flowpath passing through the low pressure compressor. The core flowpath at the low pressure compressor defines an inner diameter and an outer diameter relative to the axis. The outer diameter has a slope angle relative to the axis.
1. A gas turbine engine comprising:
a fan section including a fan surrounded by an outer housing;
a compressor section including a three-stage low pressure compressor defining an axis, a high pressure compressor including a greater number of stages than the low pressure compressor, and a core flowpath passing through the low pressure compressor;
a turbine section including a two-stage high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine including five stages, the high pressure turbine driving the high pressure compressor, the low pressure turbine driving the low pressure compressor and the low pressure turbine driving the fan section through a geared architecture, the low pressure turbine including a greater number of stages than the low pressure compressor, the low pressure compressor including a greater number of stages than the high pressure turbine; and
wherein the core flowpath within the low pressure compressor has an inner diameter and an outer diameter relative to the axis, the outer diameter has a slope angle that is between 10 degrees and 15 degrees relative to the axis, and wherein the inner diameter of the core flowpath increases through the low pressure compressor along a fluid flow direction; and
wherein the fan delivers air into a bypass duct, and a portion of air into the compressor section, with a bypass ratio defined as the volume of air delivered into the bypass duct compared to the volume of air delivered into the compressor section, and the bypass ratio being greater than 10.
2. The gas turbine engine of claim 1 , wherein the slope angle slopes toward the axis along a fluid flow direction of the core flowpath.
3. The gas turbine engine of claim 2 , wherein the outer diameter is defined by one of a plurality of rotor blades of the low pressure compressor.
4. The gas turbine of claim 1 , wherein the low pressure compressor includes at least one variable vane situated in the core flowpath.
5. The gas turbine engine of claim 1 , wherein the low pressure compressor includes an exit guide vane located in a low pressure compressor outlet section of the core flowpath.
6. The gas turbine engine of claim 1 , wherein the gas turbine engine is a two-spool turbofan.
7. The gas turbine engine of claim 1 , wherein a pressure ratio across the fan section is less than 1.6 across the fan blade alone.
8. The gas turbine engine of claim 7 , wherein the low pressure turbine includes an inlet, an outlet, a pressure ratio greater than 5, the pressure ratio of the low pressure turbine being pressure measured prior to the inlet as related to pressure at the outlet prior to an exhaust nozzle.
9. The gas turbine engine of claim 8 , wherein:
the gas turbine engine is a two-spool turbofan; and
the slope angle slopes toward the axis along a fluid flow direction of the core flowpath.
10. The gas turbine engine of claim 9 , wherein the fan section has only a single fan stage comprising the fan.
11. The gas turbine engine of claim 9 , wherein the outer diameter is defined by one of a plurality of rotor blades of the low pressure compressor.
12. The gas turbine engine of claim 9 , wherein the low pressure compressor includes an exit guide vane located in a low pressure compressor outlet section of the core flowpath.
13. The gas turbine of claim 9 , wherein the low pressure compressor includes at least one variable vane situated in the core flowpath.