摘要 |
In a turbine bucket having an airfoil portion and a root portion with a platform at an interface between the airfoil portion and the root portion, a platform cooling arrangement including: a cooling passage defined in the platform to extend along at least a portion of a concave, pressure side of the airfoil portion, at least one cooling medium inlet to said cooling passage extending from an airfoil cooling medium cavity in a vicinity of an axial center of the airfoil portion, and at least one outlet opening for expelling cooling medium from said cooling passage.
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