Abstract:
A wall assembly for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a support shell with a first inner periphery along an axis and a liner panel with a second inner periphery along the axis. The second inner periphery is smaller than the first inner periphery. Another wall assembly for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes an annular grommet mounted between the support shell and the liner panel. The annular grommet defines a contoured inner wall.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to gas turbine engine components including cooling cavities. One embodiment is directed to a component including a forward surface, an aft surface, at least one inlet on the forward surface and a cavity between the forward surface and the aft surface. The cavity is configured to receive airflow from at least one inlet to provide cooling flow for the component. The cavity includes a plurality of structures within the cavity. The component also includes at least one exit between the forward surface and the aft surface. The plurality of structures are configured to meter air flow within the cavity and to maintain the cooling effectiveness of air flow within the cavity from the at least one inlet to the at least one exit. The component having a cavity may be employed by a combustor of a gas turbine engine.
Abstract:
An assembly for a turbine engine is provided that includes a combustor wall, which includes an aperture body between a shell and a heat shield. The aperture body at least partially forms a cavity and an aperture that extends through the combustor wall. An inlet passage extends in the combustor wall to the cavity. An outlet passage extends in the combustor wall from the cavity to the aperture.
Abstract:
A liner assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes a support shell with a convex profile which faces the heat shield. A further embodiment of the foregoing embodiment of the present disclosure is where the convex profile is defined by a hyperbolic cosine function. A further embodiment of any of the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure is where the convex profile provides an approximate 4.5 inlet-to-exit area ratio. A further embodiment of any of the foregoing embodiments, of the present disclosure wherein the convex profile provides a flow acceleration toward approximately 0.5 Mach towards an end of a convergent section.
Abstract:
A combustor having U-shaped cooling channels is disclosed. The combustor may include a shell having an impingement hole, a liner spaced from the shell and having an effusion hole; a first partition spanning between the shell and the liner, a second partition spaced from the first partition and spanning between the shell and the liner; and a U-shaped channel defined between the shell and the liner and defined in part by the wall, the channel having upstream and downstream ends both adjacent the first partition and separated by the wall, wherein the impingement hole communicates with the upstream end and the effusion hole communicates with the downstream end.