Gas turbine engine blade airfoil profile
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The turbine blade includes an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a radial direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location, wherein the local axial chord corresponds to a width of the airfoil between the leading and trailing edges at the span location.
1. A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine comprising:
an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a radial direction to a tip; wherein the external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by the local axial chord, and a span location, wherein the local axial chord corresponds to a width of the airfoil between the leading edge and trailing edges at the span location; and wherein the Cartesian coordinates in Table 1 have a tolerance relative to the specified coordinates of ±0.050 inches (1.27 mm).
2. The turbine blade of claim 1 , wherein the airfoil is a second-stage turbine blade.
3. The turbine blade of claim 1 , wherein the span location corresponds to a distance from a rotational axis of the airfoil.
4. A gas turbine engine comprising:
a high-pressure turbine configured to drive a compressor section;
wherein the high-pressure turbine comprises an array of turbine blades, wherein at least one turbine blade comprises an airfoil having leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a radial direction to a tip; wherein the external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by the local axial chord, and a span location, wherein the local axial chord corresponds to a width of the airfoil between the leading edge and trailing edges at the span location; and wherein the Cartesian coordinates in Table 1 have a tolerance relative to the specified coordinates of ±0.050 inches (1.27 mm).
5. The gas turbine engine of claim 4 , wherein the array is a second-stage array of turbine blades.
6. The gas turbine engine of claim 5 , wherein the high-pressure turbine comprises an array of fixed stator vanes upstream from the second-stage array of turbine blades.
7. The gas turbine engine of claim 5 , wherein the second-stage array of turbine blades includes forty-four turbine blades.
8. The gas turbine engine of claim 4 , wherein the span location corresponds to a distance from a rotational axis of the airfoil.
9. The gas turbine engine of claim 4 , wherein the high-pressure turbine includes two arrays of turbine blades and two arrays of fixed stator vanes.
10. A gas turbine engine comprising:
a compressor section;
a combustor in fluid communication with the compressor section; and
a turbine section in fluid communication with the combustor, the turbine section comprising a high-pressure turbine coupled to the compressor section via a shaft and a low-pressure turbine aft of the high-pressure turbine;
wherein the high-pressure turbine includes an array of turbine blades, wherein at least one turbine blade includes an airfoil having leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a radial direction to a tip; wherein the external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by the local axial chord, and a span location, wherein the local axial chord corresponds to a width of the airfoil between the leading edge and trailing edges at the span location; and wherein the Cartesian coordinates in Table 1 have a tolerance relative to the specified coordinates of ±0.050 inches (1.27 mm).
11. The gas turbine engine of claim 10 , wherein the array is a second-stage array of turbine blades.
12. The gas turbine engine of claim 11 , wherein the high-pressure turbine includes an array of fixed stator vanes upstream from the second-stage array of turbine blades.
13. The gas turbine engine of claim 11 , wherein the second-stage array of turbine blades includes forty-four turbine blades.
14. The gas turbine engine of claim 10 , wherein the span location corresponds to a distance from a rotational axis of the airfoil.
15. The gas turbine engine of claim 10 , wherein the high-pressure turbine includes two arrays of turbine blades and two arrays of fixed stator vanes.
16. The gas turbine engine of claim 10 , wherein the low-pressure turbine includes between three and six stages of turbine blades.
17. The gas turbine engine of claim 10 , further comprising:
a fan section including a plurality of fan blades; and
a geared architecture configured to cause the fan section to rotate at a lower speed than the low-pressure turbine.