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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2006
Applicants:
Mark T Mitchell, Bristol, GB;
Peter Ireland, Oxford, GB;
Vikram Mittal, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Rolls-Royce plc, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wall cooling arrangement comprising on one side of a wall a multiplicity of cooling fluid inlet apertures and on the opposite of the wall a multiplicity of cooling fluid exit apertures, and in the body of the wall linking said inlet and exit apertures a network of multiply branched cooling passages. Flow of cooling fluid through a network is controlled by a throat positioned either at or close to the inlet to the passage network or at a location part way through the network, in which case there may be a plurality of inlet apertures feeding through a single throat to a plurality of outlet apertures.