ENGINE COMPONENT

An engine component includes a hot surface in thermal communication with a hot combustion gas flow, and a cooling surface, opposite the hot surface, along which a cooling fluid flows. At least one vortex generator is provided on the cooling surface, and can induce a vortex in the cooling fluid in re...

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Hauptverfasser: SMITH AARON EZEKIEL, BERGHOLZ ROBERT FREDERICK
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Zusammenfassung:An engine component includes a hot surface in thermal communication with a hot combustion gas flow, and a cooling surface, opposite the hot surface, along which a cooling fluid flows. At least one vortex generator is provided on the cooling surface, and can induce a vortex in the cooling fluid in response to contact with the flowing cooling fluid.