ROTARY MACHINES

摘要

A rotary machine comprising at least one row of rotor blades circumferentially distributed on a rotor and disposed in a rotor blade passage between at least one row of upstream stator blades and at least one row of downstream rotor blades is provided with partitions in the upstream and downstream stator blades to provide a plurality of arcuate segmented flowpaths through the rotor blading. A confined flowpath between a machine inlet and a machine outlet intersects the rotor blading at each arcuate segmented flowpath in turn from the upstream side to the downstream side. This invention when applied to a compressor provides a machine in which several stages of compression of a fluid may be achieved using a single row of rotor blades.