Fluid Flow Chambers and Bridges in Bladeless Compressors, Turbines and Pumps

Abstract

A disk in a bladeless turbine, compressor or pump comprising of a working surface, a hub for axial mounting and one or more bridges connecting the hub to the working surface. Said disk configuration forming fluid flow chambers in the disk for the entrance or exit of fluid for the purpose of extracting or infusing energy into or from the fluid. Said chambers may vary in size from one to another or may be of geometry other than triangular or trapezoidal, for example tear-drop shaped. Furthermore, this invention includes precise description of non-constant angular and axial geometry of said bridges.

1 . A unit with a circular outermost geometry in two of three dimensions consisting of any given material or combination(s) of material(s) fabricated from a single piece of material or combined materials or comprised of more than one individual component(s) joined together in any fashion to achieve the same mechanical function. For conventional purposes, said unit is hereafter referred to as “disk” or “the disk”. The disk may be used separately or in a group of more than one to comprise a single component or multiple components of bladeless compressor(s), pump(s), turbine(s) and/or gas turbine(s) fashioned to be applied separately or in conjunction with one or more similar and/or differing entities.  
   
   
       2 . A unit with a circular outermost geometry in two of three dimensions consisting of any given material or combined materials or combination(s) of material(s) fabricated from a single piece of material or comprised of more than one individual component(s) joined together in any fashion to achieve the same mechanical function. For conventional purposes, said unit is hereafter referred to as “disk” or “the disk”. The disk containing one or more passages, hereafter referred to as “chamber(s)”, in its body provides for the transfer of a single-phase, two-phase and/or more than two-phase, compressible and/or non-compressible, Newtonian and/or non-Newtonian working fluid(s) or any combination thereof through the body of the disk. The disk may be used separately or in a group of more than one to comprise a single component or multiple components of bladeless compressor(s), pump(s), turbine(s) and/or gas turbine(s) fashioned to be applied separately or in conjunction with one or more similar and/or differing entities.  
   
   
       3 . A unit with a circular outermost geometry in two of three dimensions consisting of any given material or combination(s) of material(s) fabricated from a single piece of material or combined materials or comprised of more than one individual component(s) joined together in any fashion to achieve the same mechanical function. For conventional purposes, said unit is hereafter referred to as “disk” or “the disk”. The disk containing one or more bridge(s), arm(s) and/or bracket(s), hereafter referred to as “bridge(s)”, as part of its geometry whether attached at any location or included within the unit leading to a central hub or shaft location provides for the transfer of a single-phase, two-phase and/or more than two-phase, compressible and/or non-compressible, Newtonian and/or non-Newtonian working fluid(s) or any combination thereof, hereafter referred to as “working fluid”, through the body of the disk between said bridge(s). The disk may be used separately or in a group of more than one to comprise a single component or multiple components of bladeless compressor(s), pump(s), turbine(s) and/or gas turbine(s) fashioned to be applied separately or in conjunction with one or more similar and/or differing entities.  
   
   
       4 . The disk(s) in  claim 1  is (are) described to be circular in its (their) outermost geometry, when using cylindrical coordinates, in the radial, r, and angular, θ, directions. In the axial, x, direction the disk geometry can be constant, linear, non-linear, step-function and/or random in design whether homogeneous, tapered or contoured as a function of the axial, radial and/or angular properties of the design.  
   
   
       5 . The disk(s) in  claim 2  is (are) described to be circular in its (their) outermost geometry, when using cylindrical coordinates, in the radial, r, and angular, θ, directions. In the axial, x, direction the disk geometry can be constant, linear, non-linear, step-function and/or random in design whether homogeneous, tapered or contoured as a function of the axial, radial and/or angular properties of the design.  
   
   
       6 . The disk(s) in  claim 3  is (are) described to be circular in its (their) outermost geometry, when using cylindrical coordinates, in the radial, r, and angular, θ, directions. In the axial, x, direction the disk geometry can be constant, linear, non-linear, step-function and/or random in design whether homogeneous, tapered or contoured as a function of the axial, radial and/or angular properties of the design.  
   
   
       7 . The chamber(s) according to  claim 2  defined as passing through the disk in the axial, x, direction consist(s) of one or more edges in the radial, r, and/or angular, θ, directions geometrically defined as point(s), round(s), fillet(s), arc(s), line(s), b-spline(s) or any other single, constant, linear, nonlinear, random and/or step-function value.  
   
   
       8 . The edge(s) according to  claim 5  of the chamber(s) in  claim 2  provide(s) closed geometrical configuration for the chamber(s) of the disk allowing for the passage of a working fluid through the chamber(s) demonstrating, but with the exception of previous art geometry demonstrating simple trapezoids and equilateral triangles in the cylindrical radial and angular coordinates whose edges are lines in the cylindrical coordinate system not limited in any fashion or application to, geometry of square(s), triangle(s), trapezoid(s), circle(s), cone(s) and/or tear-drop(s) whose edge(s) are geometrically defined according to  claim 5 .  
   
   
       9 . The chamber(s) of  claim 2  are present as part of the disk geometry as a single entity or more than one, thus forming a configuration of chamber(s) on the disk. The chamber(s) configuration consists of one or more chamber(s) of like or varying sizes as well as like or varying geometry regardless of orientation or location on the disk.  
   
   
       10 . The bridge(s) of the disk according to  claim 3  can be determined to have a median running the length of the bridge defined as a centerline, ℄(x,r,θ), functioning in, but with the exception of previous art geometry demonstrating linear radial behavior and constant angular and axial value (i.e. a straight bridge running from the hub to the body of the disk) not limited in any fashion or application to, all three geometrical dimensions possessing constant, linear, non-linear, random and/or step-function values whether dependent or independent on/from the other dimensions. When more than one bridge(s) is (are) present centerline, ℄(x,r,θ), of each bridge(s) may differ from the others or posses the same behavior.  
   
   
       11 . The bridge(s) according to  claim 3  consisting of a non-variable, constantly, linearly, non-linearly, step-function and/or random variable thickness and/or width extending in, but not limited to, the angular and/or axial directions as well as a non-variable, constantly, linearly, non-linearly, step-function and/or random length extending in, but not limited to, the radial direction whose centerline, ℄(x,r,θ), varies in angular and/or axial location as it progresses away from the center of the disk according to  claim 1.