An airfoil of either of a turbine blade or a turbine vane includes a cooling passage; at least one disk body disposed on an inner wall of the cooling passage and configured to reduce a flow cross-sectional area of the cooling passage to increase a fluid pressure of cooling fluid flowing through the cooling passage; and at least one through-hole formed in each of the at least one disk body such that the cooling fluid flows through the at least one through-hole and forms a vortex on a downstream side of the at least one through-hole. The cooling passage includes an inlet supplied with the cooling fluid and an end opposite to the inlet, and the at least one disk body is disposed at the inlet of the cooling passage and is configured to increase the fluid pressure of the cooling fluid flowing into the cooling passage.

Turbine blades with non-axisymmetric forward features are provided. A turbine blade may include a platform and an airfoil extending radially outward from the platform and configured to extend into a fluid flowpath. The airfoil separates an upstream portion of the fluid flowpath from a downstream portion of the fluid flowpath. A sealing member extends axially from the platform toward a stationary nozzle adjacent the platform and separates the fluid flowpath from a wheel space. The platform may have a forward face between the sealing member and the airfoil and, optionally, a forward axial face between the forward face and the airfoil. The forward face or forward axial face may face the upstream portion of the fluid flowpath and may have a profile that is non-axisymmetric with respect to its centerline axis.

A blade coupling structure and a turbine system having the same securely couple a blade to a rotor disk. The blade coupling structure includes a root elastic member disposed between a root end of a blade root of the blade and an inner end of a coupling slot formed in the rotor disk; and a wedge member having a wedge body fitted between the root elastic member and the inner end of the coupling slot. The wedge member and the root elastic member press each other and press the root end so that the blade root is fixedly coupled to the coupling slot. A flat portion of the wedge member contacts the root elastic member, and an inclined portion of the wedge member facilitates the fitting of the wedge body. A wedge passage is formed in non-contact regions of the wedge body and passes a cooling fluid to the blade.

A rotor disk for a gas turbine engine includes a disk body having a central bore extending therethrough. The disk body includes a bore body that extends around the central bore, a web that extends radially outward from the bore body having decreased thickness relative to the bore body and a peripheral rim that is located at an outer end of the web. The peripheral rim includes blade mounting structures for engaging complimentary mounting structures of rotor blades. The bore body has a bore cavity that extends continuously through the bore body and about an entire periphery of the central bore. The bore cavity has a central axis that forms a circle about the central bore.

A cooling system for a component of a gas turbine engine includes a first airflow passage configured to direct a first airflow to a mixing chamber and a second airflow passage to configured direct a second airflow to the mixing chamber, the second airflow having a higher temperature than the first airflow, and a cooling airflow passage to direct a cooling airflow from the mixing chamber to the component, the cooling airflow comprising the first airflow and the second airflow. The airflow passages are configured and sized to allow an amount of cooling airflow for unrestricted engine operation. When the first airflow passage is disabled, the second airflow passage and cooling airflow passage are configured and sized to allow an amount of cooling airflow which is adequate to permit continued safe engine operation restricted to within only a portion of its normal parameters and operating envelope.

A turbomachine blade includes a root intended to be mounted in a recessed pocket of a turbomachine rotor disc, the root having two side faces extending radially and longitudinally, each of the side faces including at least one seating intended to be inserted against a side wall of the recessed pocket, along an axis of longitudinal direction and to be in contact with the side walls of the recessed pocket, a radially inner face intended to face the bottom of the recessed pocket when the root is mounted in the recessed pocket, the radially inner face connecting the two side faces, the radially inner face including at least one curved concave surface and two curved convex surfaces, the curved concave surface extending from one end of each of the two curved convex surfaces.

A rotor shaft adapted to rotate about a rotor axis thereof. The rotor shaft includes a rotor cavity configured concentrically to the rotor axis inside the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft further includes a plurality of cooling bores extending radially outward from the rotor cavity to feed cooling air into an internal cooling system in a blade. Each cooling bore includes a bore inlet portion and a distal bore outlet portion. The respective bore inlet portion ends in a plateau, projecting above the outer circumference contour of the rotor cavity. Thus, cooling bore inlets are shifted to a low stress area and the lifetime of the rotor is improved.

A modular casing manifold for cooling fluids of a gas turbine engine is presented. The modular casing manifold has an annular shape including an axial inner plate, an axial outer plate, a radial forward plate and a radial aft plate. The forward plate is attached to the inner and outer plates at forward end. At least a portion of the aft plate is attachable to and removable from the inner and outer plates at aft end for enabling cooling fluid to cool turbine blades of the gas turbine engine. The modular casing manifold includes preswirler segments. At least a number of the preswirler segments are attachable to and removable from the forward plate for enabling cooling fluid to cool turbine blades of the gas turbine engine. The modular casing manifold enables alternative cooling fluids to cool turbine blades of the gas turbine engine with minimal cost and assembly flexibility.

A flow transfer apparatus for transferring cooling flow from a primary gas flowpath to a turbine rotor. The apparatus includes a first supply plenum communicating with the primary gas flowpath and first inducers, the first inducers configured to accelerate a first fluid flow from the first supply plenum and discharge it toward the rotor with a tangential velocity; a second supply plenum communicating with the primary gas flowpath and second inducers, the second inducers configured to accelerate a second fluid flow from the second supply plenum towards the rotor with a tangential velocity; and a cooling modulation valve operable to selectively permit or block the second fluid flow from the primary gas flowpath to the second supply plenum. The valve includes a flow control structure disposed in the primary gas flowpath and an actuation structure extending to a location radially outside of a casing defining the primary gas flowpath.

A vane comprises an airfoil extending from a radially outer platform to a radially inner platform. A pair of legs extend radially inwardly from the radially inner platform, and an air flow passage extends through the radially outer platform, through the airfoil, and into a chamber defined between the pair of legs. One of the pair of legs includes a plurality of injector holes, configured to allow air from the radially outer platform to pass outwardly of the holes. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.