Asymmetrically shaped trailing edge cooling holes

• US 9,145,773 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2012
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Bergholz, Robert Frederick Jr., Durstock, Daniel Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Look, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Flores, Juan G
• Application Number:
  US13/470,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20130302178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,233 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/186 Film cooling F01D5/187 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/187 Convection cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/122 related to the trailing edge of a stator vane
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/304 related to the trailing edge of a rotor blade
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/14 elliptical
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/323 convergent
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/324 divergent
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/202 by film cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/22141 using fins or ribs
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Abstract

A turbine airfoil includes pressure and suction sidewalls extending along a span from a base to a tip. Spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling holes in pressure sidewall end at corresponding spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling slots extending chordally substantially to trailing edge. Each cooling hole includes an asymmetric flow cross section through one or more asymmetric intermediate sections leading into slot. Flow cross section is asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane extending axially and spanwise through intermediate sections. Different trailing edge cooling holes may include different asymmetric flow cross sections. Lands may extend between the cooling slots. A raised floor may extend away from at least one of pressure or suction sidewalls at least partially through one or more asymmetric intermediate sections and optionally at least partially through cooling slot. Raised floor may include up and down ramps and a flat transition section between ramps.

Claims

1. A gas turbine engine turbine airfoil comprising:

widthwise spaced apart pressure and suction sidewalls extending outwardly along a span from an airfoil base to an airfoil tip;

the pressure and suction sidewalls extending chordwise between opposite leading and trailing edges;

a spanwise row of spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling holes encased in the airfoil between the pressure and suction sidewalls and ending at corresponding spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling slots extending chordally substantially to the trailing edge;

each of the cooling holes including one or more asymmetric intermediate sections leading into the trailing edge cooling slot;

an asymmetric flow cross section in the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections;

the asymmetric flow cross section being asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane extending axially and spanwise through the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections; and

at least one raised floor extending away from one or both of the pressure or suction sidewalls and extending downstream in and at least partially through the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections or extending downstream in and at least partially through the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections and least partially through the cooling slot, the raised floor including in downstream serial relationship an up ramp, a down ramp, and a flat transition section between the up and down ramps.

2. The airfoil as claimed in claim 1 further comprising different ones of the trailing edge cooling holes in the row including different asymmetric flow cross sections in the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections of corresponding ones of the different ones of the trailing edge cooling holes.

3. The airfoil as claimed in claim 1 further comprising lands disposed between spanwise adjacent ones of the trailing edge cooling slots and slot floors in the trailing edge cooling slots between the lands.

4. The airfoil as claimed in claim 3 further comprising the lands being coplanar or flush with an external surface of the pressure sidewall around each of the cooling slots.

5. The airfoil as claimed in claim 1 further comprising each of the cooling holes including in downstream serial cooling flow relationship, an inlet of the cooling holes, the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections, and the trailing edge cooling slot and the up ramp in the inlet.

6. A gas turbine engine turbine airfoil comprising:

widthwise spaced apart pressure and suction sidewalls extending outwardly along a span from an airfoil base to an airfoil tip;

the pressure and suction sidewalls extending chordwise between opposite leading and trailing edges;

a spanwise row of spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling holes encased in the airfoil between the pressure and suction sidewalls and ending at corresponding spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling slots extending chordally substantially to the trailing edge;

each of the cooling holes including one or more asymmetric intermediate sections leading into the trailing edge cooling slot, the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections being a single intermediate section and a metering section including the asymmetric flow cross section;

an asymmetric flow cross section in the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections;

the asymmetric flow cross section being asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane extending axially and spanwise through the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections;

an inlet of the cooling hole,

each of the cooling holes including in downstream serial cooling flow relationship the inlet and the metering section, and

at least one raised floor extending away from one or both of the pressure or suction sidewalls and extending downstream in and at least partially through the metering section or raised floor extending downstream in and at least partially through the metering section and least partially through the cooling slot, the raised floor including in downstream serial relationship an up ramp, a down ramp, and a flat transition section between the up and down ramps.

7. The airfoil as claimed in claim 6 further comprising lands disposed between spanwise adjacent ones of the trailing edge cooling slots and slot floors in the trailing edge cooling slots between the lands.

8. The airfoil as claimed in claim 7 further comprising the lands being coplanar or flush with an external surface of the pressure sidewall around each of the cooling slots.

9. A gas turbine engine turbine airfoil comprising:

widthwise spaced apart pressure and suction sidewalls extending outwardly along a span from an airfoil base to an airfoil tip;

the pressure and suction sidewalls extending chordwise between opposite leading and trailing edges;

a spanwise row of spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling holes encased in the airfoil between the pressure and suction sidewalls and ending at corresponding spanwise spaced apart trailing edge cooling slots extending chordally substantially to the trailing edge;

each of the cooling holes including one or more asymmetric intermediate sections leading into the trailing edge cooling slot, the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections being a single intermediate section and a metering section including the asymmetric flow cross section;

an asymmetric flow cross section in the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections;

the asymmetric flow cross section being asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane extending axially and spanwise through the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections;

an inlet of the cooling hole,

the one or more asymmetric intermediate sections including a metering section and a diverging section,

each of the cooling holes including in downstream serial cooling flow relationship, the inlet, the metering section and the diverging section, and

at least one raised floor extending away from one or both of the pressure or suction sidewalls and extending downstream in and at least partially through the metering section and at least partially through the diverging section or raised floor extending downstream in and at least partially through the metering section, through the diverging section and least partially through the cooling slot, the raised floor including in downstream serial relationship an up ramp, a down ramp, and a flat transition section between the up and down ramps.

10. The airfoil as claimed in claim 9 further comprising lands disposed between spanwise adjacent ones of the trailing edge cooling slots and slot floors in the trailing edge cooling slots between the lands.

11. The airfoil as claimed in claim 10 further comprising the lands being coplanar or flush with an external surface of the pressure sidewall around each of the cooling slots.