GAS TURBINE HAVING AN IMPROVED COOLING ARCHITECTURE

A thermal machine includes a hot gas channel; a shell bounding the hot gas channel; a cooling shirt surrounding the shell; and a cooling channel disposed between the shell and the cooling shirt and configured to convection cool the hot gas channel with a cooling medium, wherein the cooling shirt inc...

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Hauptverfasser: HAEHNLE, HARTMUT, TSCHUOR, REMIGI, JONES, RUSSELL BOND, VOGEL, GREGORY
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A thermal machine includes a hot gas channel; a shell bounding the hot gas channel; a cooling shirt surrounding the shell; and a cooling channel disposed between the shell and the cooling shirt and configured to convection cool the hot gas channel with a cooling medium, wherein the cooling shirt includes at least one local divergence in the guidance of the cooling medium so as to compensate for non-uniformities in at least one of a thermal load on the shell and a flow of the cooling medium in the cooling channel.