Gas turbine airfoil trailing edge corner
AssigneeSiemens Power Generation, Inc.
InventorGeorge Liang
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AssigneeSiemens Power Generation, Inc.
InventorGeorge Liang
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A gas turbine airfoil (10) includes a pressure sidewall (12) and a suction sidewall (14) joined along respective leading (16) and trailing edges (18) and extends radially outward from a root (20) to a tip (22). The airfoil also includes a trailing edge corner (24) comprising a metering hole (36) receiving a cooling fluid flow (26) from an interior fluid flow channel (e.g., 32) and discharging a metered flow (40). A dispersion cavity (42) receives the metered flow and discharges a dispersed flow (44). The dispersion cavity includes a cross sectional area (46) greater than a cross sectional area (48) of the metering hole. An open flow channel (52) receives the dispersed flow and conducts the dispersed flow to a periphery (54) of the airfoil, the open flow channel controlling mixing of the cooling fluid flow with a process gas (e.g., 28) flowing around an exterior (34) of the airfoil.
A gas turbine airfoil comprising:
A method of cooling a trailing edge corner of a gas turbine airfoil comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.