Annular one-piece corrugated liner for combustor of a gas turbine engine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsGilbert Farmer, Shaun M. Devane, John L. Vandike
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Abstract
An annular one-piece liner for a combustor of a gas turbine engine, including a first end adjacent to an upstream end of the combustor, a second end adjacent to a downstream end of the combustor, and a plurality of corrugations between the first and second ends, each corrugation having an amplitude and a wavelength between an adjacent corrugation, wherein the amplitude of the corrugations and/or the wavelength between adjacent corrugations is variable from the first end to the second end.
Claims31
An annular one-piece liner for a combustor of a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- (a) a first end adjacent to an upstream end of said combustor;
- (b) a second end adjacent to a downstream end of said combustor;
- and,
- (c) a plurality of corrugations between said first and second ends, each corrugation being substantially sinusoidal in cross-section and having an amplitude and a wavelength between an adjacent corrugation;
- wherein the amplitude of said corrugations is variable from said first end to said second end.
An annular one-piece liner for a combustor of a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- (a) a first end adjacent to an upstream end of said combustor;
- (b) a second end adjacent to a downstream end of said combustor;
- and,
- (c) a plurality of corrugations between said first aid second ends, each corrugation being substantially sinusoidal in cross-section and having an amplitude and a wavelength between an adjacent corrugation;
- wherein the wavelength between adjacent corrugations is variable from said first end to said second end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.