US 12,215,597 B1
Gas turbine engine rotor blade geometry and method for selecting same
Anthony Bruni, Toronto (CA); Jason Nichols, Mississauga (CA); Ramy Rashad, Oakville (CA); and Mohammadreza Amiralaei, Richmond Hill (CA)
Assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil (CA)
Filed by Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil (CA)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/424,383.
Int. Cl. F01D 5/14 (2006.01); F04D 29/28 (2006.01)
CPC F01D 5/141 (2013.01) [F04D 29/284 (2013.01); F05D 2220/323 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft propulsion system comprising:
a bladed rotor configured for rotation about a rotational axis, the bladed rotor includes a plurality of rotor blades, and each rotor blade of the plurality of rotor blades includes a blade body,
the blade body extends between and to a base end and a tip end, the blade body has a blade span extending between and to the base end and the tip end, the blade body extends between and to a leading edge and a trailing edge, the blade body has a blade chord extending between and to the leading edge and the trailing edge, the blade body forms a pressure side surface and a suction side surface, each of the pressure side surface and the suction side surface extend between and to the base end and the tip end and between and to the leading edge and the trailing edge, the blade body forms a recess at the pressure side surface, the recess includes a recess surface portion forming a portion of the pressure side surface, and the recess surface portion has a recess height, and
the recess height is greater than or equal to a Y-value of 0.025 for a normalized two-dimensional curve of a surface profile of the recess surface portion taken along a Y-Z plane orthogonal to the rotational axis for a recess span, a Z-direction of the Y-Z plane extends in a span direction of the blade span, a Y-direction of the Y-Z plane extends orthogonal to the Z-direction, the recess span extends between and to a minimum span position and a maximum span position in the Z-direction, and the recess height is a maximum height measured in the Y-direction between the two-dimensional curve and a straight line intersecting the two-dimensional curve at the minimum span position and the maximum span position.