A turbine blade, a turbine, and a gas turbine which have enhanced cooling performance are provided. The turbine blade may include: an airfoil having a blade shape and including a suction side formed in a convex shape and a pressure side formed in a concave shape; a platform coupled to a lower portion of the airfoil; and a root member protruding downward from the platform and coupled to a rotor disk, wherein the platform may include: a plurality of inlets through which air is drawn into the platform; a plurality of outlets through which the air is discharged from the platform; and a cooling passage connecting the inlets to the outlets and including a plurality of dispersion spaces, a width in each dispersion spaces increasing from the inlet to the outlet, and a narrow space formed between the dispersion spaces and having a width less than the width of each dispersion spaces.

A turbine component includes a hot wall, a cold wall spaced apart from the hot wall and a conduit defined between the hot wall and the cold wall. A cooling system is defined in the conduit. The cooling system includes a plurality of cooling pins, each including a first end having a first cross-sectional area and a second end having a second cross-sectional area. Each cooling pin includes a body extending between the first end and the second end, with a pin leading edge defined along the body from the first end to the second end. The pin leading edge is defined by a first diameter and a pin trailing edge is defined by a second diameter. At least one first cooling pin has the first end coupled to the hot wall and the second end coupled to the cold wall with a fillet.

An assembly for a turbine engine is provided. This turbine engine assembly includes a shell and a heat shield with a cooling cavity between the shell and the heat shield. The heat shield defines a plurality of cooling apertures and an indentation in a side of the heat shield opposite the cooling cavity. The cooling apertures are fluidly coupled with the cooling cavity. The indentation is configured such that cooling air, directed from a first of the cooling apertures, at least partially circulates against the side of the heat shield.

A component for a gas turbine engine includes, among other things, an airfoil that includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that meet together at both a leading edge and a trailing edge, the airfoil extending radially from a platform to a tip, a tip pocket formed in the tip and terminating prior to the trailing edge, and one or more heat transfer augmentation devices formed in the tip pocket.

A turbine arrangement includes a turbine rotor arrangement, a turbine seal arrangement and a turbine outlet stator vane arrangement. Turbine rotor arrangement includes a rotor and a plurality of turbine blades that extend radially. Each turbine blade has a turbine shroud. Turbine seal arrangement is spaced radially around the turbine shrouds. Turbine outlet stator vane arrangement includes radially inner and outer annular members arranged coaxially and a plurality of vanes extending radially between the radially inner and outer annular members. The vanes are arranged downstream of the turbine blades. Liner is spaced radially inwardly from a radially inner surface of the annular member to define a chamber. Turbine shrouds and the upstream end of the liner are arranged such that in operation any leakage flow of gas between the turbine shrouds and the turbine seal arrangement flows into the chamber to manage the temperature of the radially outer annular member.

An actively cooled component can be an airfoil, such as an air foil in a jet turbine engine. The component may have a body comprising at least one internal channel adapted for a flow of a cooling media therein. The channel may have two side walls separating a cold inner surface and a hot inner surface. The cold inner surface may have two impingement holes in fluid communication with a cooling media source, allowing for ingress of the cooling media into the internal channel. The hot inner surface may have one angled film hole in fluid communication with a hot outer surface, allowing for egress of the cooling media out of the internal channel. The first and second side walls may enclose a length of the internal channel along which the angled film hole is located between the two impingement holes.

A method of electroforming a heat exchanger suitable. The method comprising providing a non-sacrificial carrier plate, providing a first sacrificial element and providing a second sacrificial element. The method comprising electroforming a duct over the first sacrificial element and electroforming a rail over the second sacrificial element. The method comprising removing the first sacrificial element and the second sacrificial element.

An air-to-air heat exchanger in flow communication with a gas turbine engine is provided. The air-to-air heat exchanger has an air-to-air heat exchanger potential defined by a product raised to a half power, the product being a heat transfer surface area density associated with the air-to-air heat exchanger multiplied by an airflow conductance factor associated with the gas turbine engine. The air-to-air heat exchanger potential is between about 6.7 and 19.5 for a bypass ratio associated with the gas turbine engine between about 3 and 10 and the heat transfer surface area density being between about 3,000 m.sup.2/m.sup.3 and 10,000 m.sup.2/m.sup.3 and is between about 2.9 and 12.2 for a bypass ratio associated with the gas turbine engine between about 10 and 20 and the heat transfer surface area density being between about 1,000 m.sup.2/m.sup.3 and 10,000 m.sup.2/m.sup.3.

The present invention provides a heat transferring device and a method for making thereof. The heat transferring device has a thermal conducting substrate and a porous layer. The thermal conducting substrate has a plurality of protrusions and concave bottom surfaces. The concave bottom surfaces are located between the protrusions. The porous layer is embedded between the protrusions. The present invention also provides a high temperature material transferring system comprising a cylindrical container and the heat transferring device disposed on the surface of the cylindrical container.

A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires cooling by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; a header portion to which downstream ends of the plurality of first cooling passages are connected; and at least one outlet passage for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header portion to outside of the header portion. A roughness of an inner wall surface of the at least one outlet passage is not greater than a roughness of an inner wall surface of the plurality of first cooling passages in a region where a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the outlet passage is the smallest.