BLUCTED ROTOR MICROTURBINE

Nicola Tesla developed one of the first bladeless turbines. My experiments with his disks demonstrated several problems with Tesla's approach.

A great design for water, steam, vapor, air, or other fluid-driven Turbines. Exploding gas at multi-thousand degree temperatures, not so much.

In 2017 I was working as an Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer making composite ducts. I realized that, instead of blades, I could use a series of ducts as the rotor. This would have multiple advantages, starting with the fact that fluid stream is entirely contained within the duct and cannot turbulently spill over a blade edge. Another advantage is of course manufacturing because the entire rotor can simply be molded as a single piece. Another advantage is strength, there are no thin easily broken blades.