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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
May. 29, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rachel Yu, Medford, MA (US);
Nicholas R. Overman, Sharonville, OH (US);
William David Magnuszewski, Cincinnati, OH (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine including a compressor section for compressing air flowing therethrough to provide a compressed air flow and a reverse flow annular vortex combustor including a combustion chamber having a primary combustion zone, the combustion chamber configured to combust a mixture of a fuel flow and the compressed air flow in the primary combustion zone to generate a primary zone vortex. The reverse flow annular vortex combustor has a combustor liner and one or more driver openings extending through the combustor liner, the one or more driver openings providing a driver air flow formed of the compressed air flow. The driver air flow enters the combustion chamber as a wall of air for shaping and driving the primary zone vortex in the combustion chamber.