General Electric Company

Rachel Anne Vukoja

Ronald Scott Bunker

Kirk Douglas Gallier

Kevin Robert Feldmann

Douglas Ray Smith

Daniel Scott Martyn

An engine component for a gas turbine engine generating hot combustion gas flow is provided. The engine component can include a substrate constructed from a CMC material and having a hot surface facing the hot combustion gas flow and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow. The substrate defines a film hole extending through the substrate and having an inlet provided on the cooling surface, an outlet provided on the hot surface, and a passage connecting the inlet and the outlet. The engine component also includes a flow conditioning structure provided upstream of the outlet on the hot surface. The flow conditioning structure can include a ridge extending from the hot surface.

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Florence, KY, United States of America

Rachel Anne Vukoja