Annular seal, corresponding gas turbine combustor assembly and cooling method

An annular seal for use between coupled combustor components includes a segmented annular solid edge portion and a plurality of alternating spring fingers and slots extending from the solid edge portion and arranged about a circumference of the solid edge portion, wherein one or more of the pluralit...

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Hauptverfasser: BERKMAN, MERT, DICINTIO, RICHARD MARTIN, CHEN, WEI, LEMON, DONALD TIMOTHY
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:An annular seal for use between coupled combustor components includes a segmented annular solid edge portion and a plurality of alternating spring fingers and slots extending from the solid edge portion and arranged about a circumference of the solid edge portion, wherein one or more of the plurality of spring fingers or one or more of the plurality of straight and angled slots have non-uniform width dimensions. A gas turbine combustor assembly and a method of preferentially cooling a region in a turbine combustor are also provided.