Patent 7147426 was granted and assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada on December, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method is provided for improving efficiency of a transonic gas turbine engine compressor by bleeding off a shockwave-induced boundary layer from the gas flow passage of the compressor using an array of bleed holes having a downstream edge aligned with a foot of an oblique shock wave which originates on the leading edge of an adjacent transonic rotor blade tip.