Abstract:
A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger in fluid communication with a geared architecture and a heating compartment.
Abstract:
An airfoil assembly is disclosed. The airfoil assembly may comprise a series of airfoils such as vanes radially extending between an ID endwall and a substantially concentric OD endwall. The airfoils are circumferentially spaced apart and define a plurality of fluid flow passages between adjacent airfoils. The ID endwall and the OD endwall define contoured regions to optimize fluid flow through the passages. A geometric relationship between the ID endwall contoured regions and the OD endwall contoured regions assures that the throat area generally increases or decreases in the direction of fluid flow.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine component includes a wall with an inner face and an outer skin. A plurality of cooling air holes extend from the inner face to the outer skin. The cooling holes include an inlet merging into a metering section, and a diffusion section downstream of the metering section, and extend to an outlet at the outer skin. The diffusion section includes a plurality of lobes. A coating layer is formed on the outer skin, with at least a portion of the plurality of lobes formed within the thermal barrier coating. A method of forming such a component is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A component for a gas turbine engine has a cooling hole extending through a gas path wall. The gas path wall has a first surface and second surface, where the second surface is exposed to hot gas flow. The cooling hole includes a passage extending through the gas path wall from an inlet in the first surface to an outlet in the second surface, and a longitudinal divider separates the passage into lobes. The passage diverges through the gas path wall, such that cross-sectional area of the cooling hole increases continuously from the inlet through the passage to the outlet.
Abstract:
A component for a gas turbine engine includes a wall and a cooling hole. The wall has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is exposed to hot gas flow. The cooling hole extends through the wall. The cooling hole includes a metering section extending from an inlet in the first surface of the wall to a transition, a diffusing section extending from the transition to an outlet in the second surface of the wall, a cusp on the transition, and a first longitudinal ridge extending along the diffusing section between the transition and the outlet. The first longitudinal ridge divides the diffusing section into first and second lobes.
Abstract:
A method of forming an integral casting core (52) includes adding a disposable insert (50) to a core die (48) with the disposable insert (50) defining an inner wall in a two-circuit airfoil. A slurry is disposed into the core die (48) and fired to form an integral casting core (52). The disposable insert (50) is removed from the integral casting core (52).
Abstract:
A method of forming an integral casting core (52) includes adding a disposable insert (50) to a core die (48) with the disposable insert (50) defining an inner wall in a multi-wall airfoil (16). The core die (48) includes at least one of epoxy, ceramic, silicone, polysiloxane, polydimethylsiloxane, polyimide, epoxysilanes, phenolics, polyurethanes, polysilsesquioxanes, organic matrix composites, metal matrix composites, and a hybrid material. A slurry is disposed into the core die (48) and fired to form an integral casting core (52). The disposable insert (50) is removed from the integral casting core (52).