STATOR VANE ARRAY
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Abstract
A stator vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes circumferentially spaced vanes about a common axis. The array of vanes further includes three or more sub-arrays, which are configured such that the vane spacing in one sub-array is different from the vane spacing in the other sub-arrays.
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31 Claims
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17. A vane assembly for a gas flow machine, the vane assembly comprising an array of vanes circumferentially spaced about a common axis, wherein the array of vanes comprises three or more sub-arrays, wherein the vane spacing within one sub-array is different from the vane spacing within the other sub-arrays;
- wherein each sub-array comprises a plurality of adjacent vanes, each vane of a sub-array being substantially equally spaced from an adjacent vane in that sub-array.
- View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A gas flow machine comprising:
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a plurality of rows of rotor blades arranged in serial flow arrangement; and a stator vane assembly disposed in the flow path between said rows of rotor blades, the rotor blades and stator vane assembly being arranged about a common axis such that the rotor blades can rotate relative to the stator vane assembly in use, wherein the stator vane assembly comprises an array of vanes circumferentially spaced about a common axis, said array comprising three or more sub-arrays, wherein each sub-array comprises a plurality of adjacent vanes, each vane of a sub-array being substantially equally spaced from an adjacent vane in that sub-array, wherein the vane spacing in one sub-array is different from the vane spacing in the other sub-arrays. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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Specification