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US 9,745,850 · App. 14/286,584 · Granted Aug 29, 2017

Blade cascade and continuous-flow machine

Inventors: Yavuz Guendogdu (Munich, DE); Jochen Gier (Karlsfeld, DE); Karl Engel (Dachau, DE)
Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
F01D5/145F01D5/143F01D5/146F05D2240/301F05D2240/305F05D2240/306Y02T50/673
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Patent No.
US 9,745,850
App. No.
14/286,584
Granted
Aug 29, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A blade cascade of a continuous-flow machine is disclosed. The blade cascade has at least one side wall that is constructed in a wave-like manner in the peripheral direction and has at least one elevation and at least one depression. At least a profile-like rib is integrated in or combined with the side wall, which has a blade profile with a pressure side and with an opposite suction side. A continuous-flow machine with such a blade cascade is also disclosed.

Claims (15)

1. A blade cascade of a continuous-flow machine, comprising:

a first blade and a second blade;

a first side wall and a second side wall; and

a blade channel, wherein the blade channel is defined in a peripheral direction by a pressure side of the first blade and by a suction side of the second blade and is defined in a radial direction by the first side wall and the second side wall;

wherein at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall includes a side wall contouring, wherein the side wall contouring is wave-like in the peripheral direction and has an elevation, a depression, and a rib that has a blade profile with a pressure side and a suction side, wherein the elevation is a pressure side elevation which extends to a pressure-side blade wall of the first blade and starts from a leading edge of the first blade and extends to a trailing edge of the first blade, wherein the elevation has a smaller amplitude than the rib, and wherein the depression extends to a suction-side blade wall of the second blade.

2. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the side wall contouring extends to a downstream side wall edge.

3. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the elevation and/or the depression has a varying amplitude in a flow direction.

4. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure side and the suction side of the rib are oriented radially.

5. The blade cascade according to claim 4 , wherein the rib has a height of 30% maximum of a blade pitch.

6. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the rib is arranged in a range of approximately 40% to 100% of an axial blade width.

7. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the rib is arranged in a range of approximately 0% to 60% of an axial blade width.

8. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the side wall contouring has rounded edges.

9. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein the rib transitions, front and rear, smoothly into an adjoining surface section in a flow direction.

10. The blade cascade according to claim 1 , wherein curvature radii of the side wall contouring vary.

11. A continuous-flow machine with a blade cascade according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2014
From: GUENDOGDU, YAVUZ; GIER, JOCHEN; ENGEL, KARL
To: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
Reel/Frame 033575/0373 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 13169056 · May 24, 2013 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140348660A1 · Nov 27, 2014