摘要 |
The invention is a film cooled article such as a turbine engine blade or vane, having a wall with a hot surface 26 to be film cooled. The hot surface 26 includes a depression 48 featuring a descending flank 52 and an ascending flank 54. Coolant holes 60, which penetrate through the wall, have discharge openings residing on the ascending flank 54. During operation, the depression locally over-accelerates a primary fluid stream F flowing over the ascending flank while coolant jets 70 concurrently issue from the discharge openings. The local over-acceleration of the primary fluid deflects the jets onto the hot surface and spatially constrains the jets thus encouraging them to spread out laterally and coalesce into a laterally continuous, protective coolant film. In one embodiment, the depression 48 is a trough 50. In another embodiment, the depression is a dimple 72.
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