Abstract:
A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a compressor section, a combustor, a fan drive gear system, and a turbine section coupled to drive the fan through the gear system. The combustor includes an annular outer shell and an annular inner shell that define an annular combustion chamber. There is a bulkhead in the annular combustion chamber, and an annular heat shield is mounted on the bulkhead. The annular heat shield includes a segment that has a forward face and an aft face, a circumferential outer side and a circumferential inner side, a central orifice between the forward face and the aft face, a lip projecting from the forward face around the central orifice, a rail projecting from the forward face, and a plurality of through-holes between the rail and the lip. The rail contacts the bulkhead to define a cavity bounded by the rail, the lip, and the bulkhead.
Abstract:
An air swirler, a fuel and air admission assembly, and a staged combustor are disclosed. The staged combustor may be equipped with the fuel and air admission assemblies incorporating the air swirlers for use in gas turbine engines, such as for example gas turbine engines powering aircraft having supersonic cruise capability.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a compressor section, a combustor, a fan drive gear system, and a turbine section coupled to drive the fan through the gear system. The combustor includes an annular outer shell and an annular inner shell that define an annular combustion chamber. There is a bulkhead in the annular combustion chamber, and an annular heat shield is mounted on the bulkhead. The annular heat shield includes a segment that has a forward face and an aft face, a circumferential outer side and a circumferential inner side, a central orifice between the forward face and the aft face, a lip projecting from the forward face around the central orifice, a rail projecting from the forward face, and a plurality of through-holes between the rail and the lip. The rail contacts the bulkhead to define a cavity bounded by the rail, the lip, and the bulkhead.
Abstract:
A combustor a gas turbine engine includes an axial fuel injection system in communication with a combustion chamber, the axial fuel injection system operable to supply between about 10%-35% of a combustion airflow. A radial fuel injection system communicates with the combustion chamber downstream of the axial fuel injection system, where the radial fuel injection system is operable to supply between about 30%-60% of the combustion airflow. A multiple of dilution holes are in communication with a combustion chamber downstream of said radial fuel injection system, where the multiple of dilution holes are operable to supply between about 5%-20% of the combustion airflow.
Abstract:
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a combustion chamber defined between an inner shell and an outer shell. The combustor further includes a bulkhead extending between the inner shell and the outer shell. The bulkhead includes a plurality of impingement cooling rings. Each impingement cooling ring of the plurality of impingement cooling rings includes a plurality of impingement cooling holes extending through the bulkhead. The combustor further includes a heat shield panel mounted to the bulkhead so as to define an impingement cooling chamber between the bulkhead and the heat shield panel. The heat shield panel further includes a radial portion between a perimeter and an opening, with respect to an opening center axis, which is free of penetrations. The plurality of impingement cooling holes of each of the plurality of impingement cooling rings are directed toward the radial portion of the heat shield panel.
Abstract:
A combustor is provided. The combustor may include an axial fuel injection system, and a radial fuel injection system aft of the axial fuel injection system. The axial fuel injection system includes a mixer having a bluff body at an exit port of the mixer, and a fuel injector disposed within the mixer. A fuel and air mixer is also provided and comprises an outer housing with an exit port and a bluff body. The bluff body extends across the exit port of the outer housing. A fuel injection system is also provided. The systems comprise a mixer having a bluff body at an exit port of the mixer and a fuel injector disposed within the mixer.
Abstract:
An air extraction port at a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a port inlet at a combustor case of the combustor having an inlet area, a port outlet having a final area, and a fluid passage extending from the port inlet to the port outlet to convey an airflow, the port inlet sized and configured to extract the airflow from the combustor case at the same nominal upstream Mach number with a tolerance of +/−0.05.
Abstract:
A combustor liner for a gas turbine is provided. The combustor liner comprises a wall and a plurality of airflow injection holes in the wall arranged in a circumferentially-extending row, the plurality of airflow injection holes including a plurality of circular first airflow injection holes and at least one non-circular second airflow injection hole.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to gas turbine engines, and in particular to combustor swirlers and swirler configurations. In one embodiment, a swirler includes an inner passage for receiving a fuel injector and a plurality of outer passages concentrically arranged around the inner passage. The plurality of outer passages include an outer vane assembly including a plurality of vane elements arranged at a first angle and a first middle vane assembly include a plurality of vane elements arranged at a second angle, wherein the outer vane assembly is concentrically arranged around the first middle vane assembly, and wherein the outer vane assembly and first middle vane assembly are configured to produce a low net-swirl to control the penetration depth and improve premixing of a fuel air mixture for the fuel injector. According to another embodiment, the swirler includes a second middle vane assembly include a plurality of vane elements arranged at a third angle.
Abstract:
A diffuser for a gas turbine engine includes a diffuser housing that has a circumferential array of hollow struts that provide a cavity. The diffuser housing includes inlet and outlet apertures that are in fluid communication with the cavity. An opening on a trailing end of the struts is in fluid communication with the cavity. The diffuser housing is configured to introduce a fluid through the inlet aperture and receive a core flow through the opening. The fluid and core flow exit through the outlet aperture.