Airfoil shape and platform contour for turbine rotor blades

    公开(公告)号:US11384640B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US16199353

    申请日:2018-11-26

    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil that extends from a platform. The platform may include a first portion of a nominal platform contour substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X′, Y′, and Z′ as set forth in Table II. The Cartesian coordinate values of X′, Y′, and Z′ are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X′, Y′, and Z′ by a height of the airfoil defined along a Z′ axis. The X′ and Y′ values of the first portion are coordinate values that, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define contour lines of the first portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z′ coordinate value. The contour lines may be joined smoothly with one another to form the first portion.

    VASCULAR ASSESSMENT USING ACOUSTIC SENSING

    公开(公告)号:US20220071497A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17422653

    申请日:2020-01-16

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of prior images acquired of the patient and acoustic signature from a vascular region of interest to create a patient-specific model of sound propagation from the vascular region. This model is then used to monitor the progression of disease in the vascular region of interest, using subsequently-acquired acoustic signals. In an alternate embodiment, population-based images and/or population-based acoustic signatures are used to generate predictive data when a priori patient-specific imaging information is not available and this data is used to characterize or categorize at-risk patients suspected of coronary artery disease, but without prior cardiac events.

    METHODS FOR PERSONALIZING BLOOD FLOW MODELS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170325769A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-16

    申请号:US15154360

    申请日:2016-05-13

    Abstract: The present approach provides a non-invasive methodology for estimation of coronary flow and/or fractional flow reserve. In certain implementations, various approaches for personalizing blood flow models of the coronary vasculature are described. The described personalization approaches involve patient-specific measurements and do not assume or rely on the resting coronary flow being proportional to myocardial mass. Consequently, there are fewer limitations in using these approaches to obtain coronary flow and/or fractional flow reserve estimates non-invasively.

    END WALL CONTOUR FOR AN AXIAL FLOW TURBINE STAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20170218769A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-03

    申请号:US15010145

    申请日:2016-01-29

    Abstract: A turbine stage includes a row of airfoils joined to corresponding platforms to define flow passages therebetween. Each airfoil includes opposite pressure and suction sides and extends in chord between opposite leading and trailing edges. Each platform has a contoured flow surface including a purge valley, an elevated bulge and a bowl. The purge valley has a maximum depth at an elevation equal to or greater than a nominal axisymmetric platform surface of the corresponding platform. The purge valley extending tangentially against a purge cavity wall and into the blend area and extending axially from proximate the leading edge of a first airfoil toward the suction side of the first airfoil, and toward the leading edge of a second adjacent airfoil to channel a purge flow. The elevated bulge adjoins the pressure side aft of the leading edge and the bowl adjoins the suction side aft of the leading edge.

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