A segmented annular combustion system includes integrated combustor nozzles, each of which has a fuel injection panel disposed radially between an inner liner segment and an outer liner segment. The fuel injection panel includes an aft end portion, a first side wall, a second side wall, premixing channels defined between the first side wall and the side wall, and injection outlets defined along at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall. The aft end portion defines a turbine nozzle portion. An interior portion between the first side wall and the second side wall includes walls that extend between the first and second side walls, thereby partitioning the interior portion into discrete air cavities. The liner segments may be cooled by micro-channel cooling passages, which may be fluidly coupled to a collection trough.

A heat shield panel for a gas turbine engine combustor is disclosed. The heat shield panel includes a hot side defining a first surface having an outer perimeter, a cold side defining a second surface spaced from the first surface and a plurality of holes, each hole including a central axis having vector components defined by a common vector.

A conjoined grommet assembly for a combustor wall assembly of a gas turbine engine has a first grommet defining at least in-part a first dilution hole, and a second grommet defining at least in-part a second dilution hole. The first and second dilution holes are spaced closely together such that the first grommet is in contact with the second grommet.

A combustor is provided for a turbine engine. The combustor includes a first liner having a first side and a second side and a second liner having a first side and a second side. The second side of the second liner forms a combustion chamber with the second side of the first liner, and the combustion chamber is configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein. The first liner defines a plurality of effusion cooling holes configured to form a film of cooling air on the second side of the first liner. The plurality of effusion cooling holes including a first effusion cooling hole extending from the first side to the second side with a non-linear line of sight.

A substrate having one or more shaped effusion cooling holes formed therein. Each shaped cooling hole has a bore angled relative to an exit surface of the combustor liner. One end of the bore is an inlet formed in an inlet surface of the combustor liner. The other end of the bore is an outlet formed in the exit surface of the combustor liner. The outlet has a shaped portion that expands in only one dimension. Also methods for making the shaped cooling holes.

The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).

In one embodiment, a gas turbine engine component includes a foam based core and a composite skin member. Both the foam based core and the composite skin member can be used to structurally support the gas turbine engine component. The composite skin member can be a CMC material and is used to partially encapsulate the foam core. The gas turbine engine component can take the form of an airfoil member such as a blade or a vane, a combustor liner, etc. A first portion of the composite skin member includes a first surface extending past an edge of the component creating a step approximate an edge section. In another embodiment, composite skin members can be used to form a continuous shape for the edge section such that the foam core forms part of a gas path surface.

A gas turbine engine component having a first surface in communication with a core airflow. The gas turbine engine component further includes a second surface, different than the first surface, for cooling the first surface. The gas turbine engine component further includes a heat transfer augmentor extending from the second surface. The gas turbine engine component further includes a heat transfer augmentor effusion hole extending through the gas turbine engine component from a sidewall of the heat transfer augmentor to the first surface.

A grommet may define a dilution hole in a combustor panel. The grommet may comprise a ridge having a stepped geometry formed about an inner diameter of the grommet, the ridge comprising a passage. The passage may comprise an outlet. The ridge may further comprise a fillet about the inner diameter of the grommet, wherein the outlet is configured to direct a cooling flow circumferentially along the fillet and fill the ridge with the cooling flow.

A burner of a turbomachine, particularly a gas turbine engine, has at least one burner section having an annular wall surrounding a respective section of a burner interior, the annular wall including: an annular inner surface delimiting the burner interior, and a plurality of dampening cavities for the dampening of thermo-acoustic vibrations in the burner interior, each dampening cavity being connected to the annular inner surface through at least a dampening hole. A method of manufacturing such a burner includes additive manufacturing of the annular wall as an integrally formed component, or additive manufacturing of the upstream burner section, wherein the intermediate burner section and the downstream burner section as integrally formed component.