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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2005
Michiel Kopmels, Bristol, GB;
Michiel Kopmels, Bristol, GB;
Rolls-Royce, PLC, London, GB;
Abstract
A component such as a turbine blade of a gas turbine engine includes a film cooling arrangement which is optimized by a process in which a component is manufactured having a film cooling arrangement of an initial design and evaluation of the performance of the film cooling arrangement is conducted, for example on the basis of the blowing rate of cooling holes present in the initial design. The configuration of a cooling hole of the initial design is subsequently modified in order to improve the performance of the film cooling arrangement and a component is manufactured in accordance with the modified design. By way of example, the initial design may provide a single cooling holeand the modification may comprise the provision of additional cooling holeseach intersecting the initial cooling holeadjacent its inlet end which opens into a source of cooling fluid