Abstract: A geared turbofan engine includes a plurality of turbine stages, wherein for each stage (i) of the turbine, an inner radius Ri has a maximum deviation between +1.5% and ?3% as compared to the average inner radius of the inner blade platforms of the plurality of stages. The engine further includes a fan, the fan coupled to the turbine stages via a gear.

Abstract: An airfoil array segment for an airfoil array of a turbomachine including a platform having a platform surface and an upstream-side platform edge, as well as at least two airfoils, whose leading and trailing edges define an inter-airfoil strip, the platform surface having a trough with a bottom configured such that the bottom is a global minimum and a radial position of the trough decreases relative to a reference surface in the circumferential direction from a suction side of one of the airfoils toward the pressure side of the adjacent other airfoil toward the bottom and from there increases in the circumferential direction, at most up to the radial position of the reference surface, and a radial position of the trough decreasing relative to a reference surface axially in the downstream direction toward the bottom and from there increasing axially in the downstream direction, at most up to the radial position of the reference surface, and the platform surface reaching at most a radial position of the referen

Abstract: A guide vane ring and/or a rotor blade ring for a low-pressure turbine of an aircraft gas turbine of a turbofan engine includes a plurality of airfoils disposed consecutively in a direction of rotation. The plurality of airfoils includes a first airfoil and a second airfoil adjacent to the first airfoil in the direction of rotation. The first and second airfoils are disposed relative to each other such that a ratio e/t, viewed in a conical section, results from a smallest free flow cross-section e taken on the pressure side of the first airfoil from its trailing edge to a suction side of the second airfoil, and a pitch t of the airfoils, such that e/t is less than 0.31, (e/t<0.31).

Abstract: A stator vane for a turbomachine, including an airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are interconnected by a suction side and a pressure side, the airfoil extending substantially in a radial direction between an inner platform and an outer platform, wherein, when viewed in an axial direction of the turbomachine toward the trailing edge, the trailing edge extends so as to be inclined at a first angle to the pressure side radially on an outside in relation to the radial direction at a circumferential position at which the trailing edge meets the outer platform, and wherein the first angle between the trailing edge and a tangent to the outer platform at a transition from the outer platform to the trailing edge is between 72° and 84°.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blade or vane, particularly of a turbine stage of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, having a blade or vane root and a blade or vane element joined to the blade or vane root, wherein the blade or vane element has a pressure side and a suction side, and wherein the blade or vane root has at least one raised region on its radial outer side facing the blade or vane element. It is proposed according to the invention that the blade or vane has a first raised region on the pressure side and a second raised region on the suction side, wherein the highest point of the first raised region is disposed essentially directly adjacent to the pressure side, and the highest point of the second raised region is disposed essentially directly adjacent to the suction side.

Abstract: A guide vane airfoil for placement in a flow path portion of a turbomachine is provided, which, relative to a flow pattern in flow path portion, has a leading edge and, downstream thereof, a trailing edge, as well as a suction side and a pressure side; relative to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, viewed in the axial direction, in a radially inner portion, forming a first angle ? with a circular arc about the longitudinal axis, and, in a radially outer portion, a second angle ? with a circular arc about the longitudinal axis. The guide vane airfoil is inclined in the outer portion, thus ??90°, in terms of absolute value, being >0° (|??90°|>0°), and the guide vane airfoil being more highly inclined in the outer portion than in the inner portion, thus ??90°, in terms of absolute value, being >??90° (|??90°|>??90°).

Abstract: Described are an airfoil array segment (100, 200, 300) having at least two airfoils (20, 30) and a platform (10) that features an axis asymmetrical platform surface (12). This platform surface features an elevation (110, 210, 310) that extends from the pressure side (21) of the first to the suction side (32) of the second airfoil (30). A highest point (111, 211, 311) of the elevation is more proximate to the suction side 32 of the second airfoil (30) than to the pressure side (21) of the first airfoil (20). Also described are an airfoil, a platform, an airfoil passage and a turbomachine.

Abstract: Described is a turbine center frame for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, the turbine center frame having a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall bounding an annular space through which hot gas flows and each having a contour facing the annular space, the contours describing an inner annular space curve along the inner wall and an outer annular space curve along the outer wall. At least one vane element extends in the radial direction through the annular space and has an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge, the vane element having an outer axial width.

Abstract: An airfoil array for a turbomachine, in particular a turbine or compressor stage of a gas turbine.

Abstract: A blade/vane cascade segment of a blade/vane cascade for a turbomachine is disclosed, which comprises a stage with a stage surface as well as a first blade/vane element and a second blade/vane element. The stage surface comprises a first elevation reaching as far as the pressure side of the first blade/vane element and a second elevation reaching as far as the suction side of the second blade/vane element. A furthest downstream point of a boundary of the second elevation has an axial position which differs from the axial position of at least one highest point of the first elevation by a maximum of 10% of an axial cascade span. Furthermore, a blade/vane cascade, a blade/vane channel, a stage, a turbomachine and an aircraft engine are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an airfoil array segment (110, 120, 130, 140, 150) of an airfoil array for a turbomachine, the airfoil array segment including a platform (10) having a platform surface, as well as at least two airfoils (20, 30). The platform surface has a depression (111, 121, 131, 141, 151) which extends up to the first airfoil and contacts the pressure side (21) of the first airfoil downstream of 80% of the axial chord (g) downstream of the leading edges (23, 33) and which contacts the pressure side (21) of the first airfoil downstream up to no more than 80% of the axial chord (g) downstream of the leading edges (23, 33). At least one lowest point (112, 122) of the depression is located at least 90% of the axial chord (g) downstream of the leading edges (23, 33). Also disclosed are an airfoil array, an airfoil passage, a platform, a turbomachine, and an aircraft engine.

Abstract: A blade/vane cascade segment for a blade/vane cascade of a turbomachine includes a stage and at least two blade/vane elements that define a blade/vane intermediate strip with an axial cascade span on the stage surface by their leading and trailing edges. A stage edge on the inflow side has a contour with a depression. In the axial direction, this depression extends at most by 10% of the cascade span into the blade/vane intermediate strip. Also provided is a corresponding stage, a blade/vane cascade, a blade/vane channel, and a turbomachine.

Abstract: Disclosed is a blade/vane cascade segment of a blade/vane cascade of a turbomachine, which comprises at least two blade/vane elements defining an axial cascade width, and a stage with a stage surface, as well as a stage edge on the inflow side. The stage surface has an elevation extending up to the pressure side of a first blade/vane element and a depression extending up to the suction side of the other blade/vane. At least one highest point of the elevation and at least one lowest point of the depression each lie at least 30% and at most 60% of the axial cascade width downstream of the inflow edges of the blade/vane elements. In this case, the elevation and the depression each come close to the stage edge on the inflow side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a turbomachine including a stator, a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, and an annulus for carrying a core flow, the annulus having a side wall on the stator and a side wall on the rotor, at least one airfoil array having a plurality of airfoils being disposed in the annulus. In a departure from an ideal aerodynamic annulus contour, a radial annulus enlargement begins upstream of the airfoils and extends downstream up to an aft portion of the airfoil array that follows the ideal aerodynamic annulus contour. Also disclosed is an airfoil for such a turbomachine.

Abstract: Described is a turbine center frame for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, the turbine center frame having a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall bounding an annular space through which hot gas flows and each having a contour facing the annular space, the contours describing an inner annular space curve along the inner wall and an outer annular space curve along the outer wall. At least one vane element extends in the radial direction through the annular space and has an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge, the vane element having an outer axial width.

Abstract: A blade channel of a turbomachine that is delimited in the circumferential direction of the turbomachine by a pressure side of an airfoil and by an opposite suction side of an adjacent airfoil that, in the radial direction of the turbomachine, is delimited by two opposing side walls, and whose extent in the axial direction of the turbomachine is delimited by leading edges and by trailing edges of airfoils; at least one of the side walls being provided with localized contours, of which at least two are formed as elevations and at least two as depressions; a saddle surface being formed between the contours that, in one rotation, alternately merges into an elevation and a depression; a blade cascade having such blade channels, as well as a turbomachine having such a blade cascade.

Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane cluster for a turbomachine, in particular for a turbojet engine, having at least two vanes that are joined together by way of at least one common platform for the radial delimiting of a flow channel of the turbomachine, wherein each vane has a vane element with a suction side and a pressure side that are joined together by a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the at least two vanes have different trailing edge wall thicknesses at least in a corresponding radial lengthwise extension region.

Abstract: A guide vane airfoil for placement in a flow path portion of a turbomachine is provided, which, relative to a flow pattern in flow path portion, has a leading edge and, downstream thereof, a trailing edge, as well as a suction side and a pressure side; relative to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, viewed in the axial direction, in a radially inner portion, forming a first angle ? with a circular arc about the longitudinal axis, and, in a radially outer portion, a second angle ? with a circular arc about the longitudinal axis. The guide vane airfoil is inclined in the outer portion, thus ??90°, in terms of absolute value, being >0° (|??90°|>0°), and the guide vane airfoil being more highly inclined in the outer portion than in the inner portion, thus ??90°, in terms of absolute value, being >??90° (|??90°|>??90°).

Abstract: An airfoil array for a turbomachine, in particular a turbine or compressor stage of a gas turbine.

Abstract: Described are an airfoil array segment (100, 200, 300) having at least two airfoils (20, 30) and a platform (10) that features an axis asymmetrical platform surface (12). This platform surface features an elevation (110, 210, 310) that extends from the pressure side (21) of the first to the suction side (32) of the second airfoil (30). A highest point (111, 211, 311) of the elevation is more proximate to the suction side 32 of the second airfoil (30) than to the pressure side (21) of the first airfoil (20). Also described are an airfoil, a platform, an airfoil passage and a turbomachine.