Gas turbine cooled blade

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall, a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region, a first internal partition

• and a plurality of penetrating members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall to incresase cooling performance at said leading edge wall above cooling performance at said first internal partition, and each of said penetrating members having both ends thereof fixed to said suction side wall and said pressure side wall.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall and a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region and by a first internal partition,

• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and increasing cooling performance at said leading edge wall above cooling performance at said first internal partition and to project from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall, and each of said projecting members having at least one of the ends thereof fixed to said suction side wall and said pressure side wall.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall and a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region and by a first internal partition.

• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region and by a first internal partition,
• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and increasing cooling performance at said leading edge wall above cooling performance at said first internal partition and to project from said body side wall, and each member having one of the ends thereof fixed to said pressure side wall.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall and a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region and by a first internal partition,

• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and increasing cooling performance at said leading edge wall above cooling performance at said first internal partition and to project from both of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall, and said members having at least one of the ends thereof fixed to said suction side wall and said pressure side wall, respectively.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall, a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region, and a first internal partition, and a plurality of penetrating members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge.

A gas turbine blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall, a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region, a first internal partition,

• and a plurality of penetrating members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall, and each of said penetrating members having both ends therof fixed to said suction side wall and said pressure side wall,
• wherein the transverse cross-sectional area of said penetrating members is from 20% to 50% of the transverse cross-sectional area of said cooling passage and the transverse cross-sectional area of the portion of said cooling passage between said members and said first internal partition is up to 20% of the transverse cross-sectional area of said cooling passage.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a suction side wall and a pressure side wall of a blade leading edge region and by a first internal partition,

• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being postioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, therby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and to project from at least one of said suction side wall and said pressure side wall, and each of said projecting members having one of the ends thereof fixed to said suction side wall and said pressure side wall, wherein the length of said projecting is at least 50% of the distance to the opposed surface.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a rear side wall, a body side wall of a blade leading edge region, a first internal partition

• and a plurality of penetrating members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said rear side wall and said body side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition than to said leading edge wall in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and said members having both ends therof fixed to said rear side wall and said body side wall, and a plurality of rectifiction ribs being disposed at positions in an area adjacent and said penetrating members and adjacent to one another on a surface of said first internal partition and extending from said rear side wall.

A gas turbine cooled blade having a cooling passage of an internal convective cooling arrangement which is defined by a leading edge wall, a rear side wall, a body side wall of a blade leading edge region, a first internal partition

• and a plurality of projecting members disposed inside said cooling passage and extending from at least one of said rear side wall and said body side wall facing a flow of a cooling fluid, and said members being arranged densely in a line and being positioned closer to said first internal partition in such a manner as to oppose the flow of the cooling fluid, thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of a main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall and to project from at least one of said rear side wall and said body side wall and said members having one of the ends thereof fixed to said rear side wall or said body side wall, and a plurality of rectification ribs disposed at positions in an area adjacent and between said projecting members and adjacent to one another on a surface of said first internal partition and extending from said rear side wall.

A gas turbine cooled blade having cooling passage means for internal convective cooling of said blade, said cooling passage means comprising in the leading edge region a leading edge wall, a rear side wall, a body side wall, and an internal partition, and means disposed in a line along a direction of main stream flow of a cooling fluid, and closer to said internal partition than to said leading edge wall, in said cooling passage means to cool said blade by internal convective than to said leading edge wall for opposing the flow of the cooling fluid and thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of the main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall while restraining cooling of said internal partition,

• wherein the flow opposing means are arranged densely in the line along the cooling fluid main stream flow, and
• said flow opposing means have cross-sectional areas which increase to a maximum at around the center of blade height and decrease in the direction of the blade root and of the blade tip.

A gas turbine cooled blade having cooling passage means for internal convective cooling of said blade, said cooling passage means comprising in the leading edge region a leading edge wall, a rear side wall, a body side wall, and an internal partition, and means disposed in a line along a direction of main stream flow of a cooling fluid, and closer to said internal partition than to said leading edge wall, in said cooling passage means to cool said blade by internal convective than to said leading edge wall for opposing the flow of the cooling fluid and thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of the main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall while restraining cooling of said internal partition,

• wherein the flow opposing means are arranged densely in the line along the cooling fluid main stream flow, and
• said flow opposing means have cross-sectional areas in the direction transverse to blade height of between 20% to 50% of an area of said cooling passage means transverse to blade height, and the area of the cooling passage means between said flow opposing means and said internal partition is up to 20% of the area of said cooling passage means.

A gas turbine cooled blade having cooling passage means for internal convective cooling of said blade, said cooling passage means comprising in the leading edge region a leading edge wall, a rear side wall, a body side wall, and an internal partition, and means disposed in a line along a direction of main stream flow of a cooling fluid, and closer to said internal partition than to said leading edge wall, in said cooling passage means to cool said blade by internal convective than to said leading edge wall for opposing the flow of the cooling fluid and thereby concentrating channelling and turbulence of the main stream of the cooling fluid upon an inner surface of said leading edge wall while restraining cooling of said internal partition,

• wherein the flow opposing means are arranged densely in the line along the cooling fluid main stream flow, and
• said flow opposing means have a length in the direction between the rear side wall and body side wall of at least 50% of the distance therebetween.