General Electric Company

Julienne LaChance

Todd Garrett Wetzel

William Stewart

Emily Rosette Clark

Emily Clark Clark

An apparatus for cooling an engine component such as a turbine engine airfoil, including a wall bounding an interior extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge and radially between a root and a tip. A cooling circuit it located within the interior of the airfoil can include a flow enhancer permitting a volume of fluid, such as air, to pass around the flow enhancer.

Engine component with flow enhancer

An apparatus for a turbine engine, such as a gas turbine engine, can include an engine component such as an airfoil. The airfoil includes an outer wall with a pressure side and a suction side confronting a hot gas flow exterior of the airfoil. A cooling circuit can provide a flow of cooling fluid through the interior of the airfoil to cool the airfoil operating within the hot gas flow. The cooling circuit can include a pin bank to induce turbulence on the cooling fluid to improve cooling of the airfoil.

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Julienne LaChance