A blade for use in a gas turbine engine, the blade comprising a blade portion and a fir tree root portion, the blade portion and the root portion having a connected passage for allowing cooling air to flow within the blade, the fir tree root portion having an air intake on its leading edge, the air intake allowing cooling air to enter the cooling passage and wherein the fir tree root portion comprises a plurality of projections, including at least a base projection and a top projection; and wherein the air inlet located in the base projection of the fir tree root portion and wherein the air inlet comprises at least 50% of the face of the base projection of the fir tree root portion.

The invention relates to a turbomachine comprising a device for ventilating and pressurising a turbine rotor of a turbomachine of axis (A), the device comprising at least one collection pipe suitable for collecting a fraction of the air circulating in a high-pressure compressor of the turbomachine and conveying it to a first inner chamber (39) inside the turbomachine that communicates with a second inner chamber (40) delimited by the turbine (24) rotor (23), the first and second chambers (39, 40) being at least partially separated by a stationary shroud (56) of axis (A), characterised in that it comprises at least one injector (58) passing through the stationary shroud (56) and having a cross-section that varies in response to a pressure difference between said first and second chambers (39, 40).

A turbine rotor for aircraft turbine engine includes a mobile disc supporting mobile blades, the mobile disc including a plurality of slots into which are inserted the roots of the mobile blades a passage being formed between the bottom of the slots and the roots of the mobile blades inserted into the slots. The rotor also includes a circulation channel configured to allow circulation of fluid, the circulation channel including the passage, and a calibration device configured to allow the flow of a first fluid flow rate in the circulation channel when the temperature within the channel is less than a predetermined temperature threshold value, and to change state so as to allow the flow of a second fluid flow rate, greater than the first flow rate, in the channel, when the temperature within the channel is greater than or equal to said predetermined threshold value.

A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section. The turbine section includes a high pressure turbine comprising a plurality of turbine blades. The gas turbine engine includes a tap for tapping air that is compressed by the compressor, to be passed through a heat exchanger to cool the air, the cooled air to be passed to the plurality of turbine blades. A sensor is located downstream of a leading edge of the combustor, and is configured to measure a characteristic of the cooled air. A controller is configured to compare the measured characteristic to a threshold and control an operating condition of the gas turbine engine based on the comparison.

A turbine blade disposed along a radial direction of a turbine includes: an airfoil portion positioned in a fluid flow passage of the turbine; and a shroud portion positioned on an inner side or an outer side of the airfoil portion in the radial direction, and having an opening with which an end portion of the airfoil portion is to be engaged. A clearance is formed between a wall surface forming the opening of the shroud portion and an outer peripheral surface of the end portion of the airfoil portion. The wall surface of the shroud portion and the outer peripheral surface of the airfoil portion are joined to each other. At least one of the shroud portion or the airfoil portion has a cooling hole formed thereon, the cooling hole having an opening into the clearance and being configured to supply the clearance with a cooling fluid.

A disk assembly may include: a first disk engaged with a compressor section of a gas turbine; a second disk engaged with a turbine section of the gas turbine; and a third disk disposed between the first and second disks, and transferring torque applied to the second disk to the first disk. The third disk has a plurality of legs formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof, the plurality of legs being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of a tie bolt of the gas turbine.

An assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes at least one platform having a main body extending between a first mate face and a second mate face to establish a gas path surface. The main body has an internal passage extending circumferentially between a first opening along the first mate face and a second opening along the second mate face relative to an assembly axis. A perimeter of the first mate face establishes a first area, a perimeter of the second opening establishes a second area, and the second area is greater than the first area. An airfoil section extends radially from the at least one platform.

An airfoil assembly includes first and second fiber-reinforced composite airfoil rings that each have inner and outer platform sections, a suction side wall extending between the inner and outer platforms, a pressure side wall extending between the inner and outer platforms, and suction and pressure side mate faces along, respectively, edges of the suction and pressure side walls. The suction side mate face of the first fiber-reinforced composite airfoil ring and the pressure side mate face of the second fiber-reinforced composite airfoil ring mate at an interface to form an airfoil that circumscribes an internal cavity. A least one of the suction or pressure side mate faces includes protrusions along a trailing edge of the airfoil. The protrusions define a toothed exit slot for emitting cooling air from the internal cavity.

A valve opening degree determination device includes an object operating state acquisition unit configured to acquire an object operating state which is an operating state of a gas turbine before control, and a valve opening degree calculation unit configured to calculate the valve opening degree such that a disk cavity temperature after control is equal to or lower than a target temperature, based on the object operating state. The valve opening degree calculation unit is configured to determine an input value of the valve opening degree such that a prediction value of the disk cavity temperature is equal to or lower than the target temperature as the valve opening degree, based on a prediction model generated based on a plurality of previous data in which the operating state, the disk cavity temperature, and an actual opening degree of the cooling-air adjustment valve previously acquired are associated with each other.

There are provided a throttle mechanism and the like that are capable of easily changing a cross-sectional area of a flow path according to an operating state. The throttle mechanism in an embodiment is a throttle mechanism that controls a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path, and is configured to make a cross-sectional area of the flow path change autonomously according to temperature.