Performance of a combustion chamber by multiple wall perforations
View Patent ↗An annular wall for the combustion chamber of a turbomachine has a cold side and a hot side, said wall being provided with a plurality of primary holes and a plurality of dilution holes distributed in circumferential rows, together with a plurality of cooling orifices that are distributed in a plurality of circumferential rows that are spaced apart axially from one another, the number of cooling orifices being identical in each row thereof, and the wall further including bores disposed immediately downstream from the primary holes and from the dilution holes and distributed in circumferential rows, the bores in any one row presenting a substantially identical diameter, being spaced apart at a pitch that is constant, and presenting intrinsic characteristics that are different from the intrinsic characteristics of the cooling orifices of the adjacent rows.
1. An annular wall for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine, the wall having a cold side and a hot side, said wall comprising:
a plurality of primary holes which allows air flowing over the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side in order to enable combustion, the primary holes being distributed in circumferential rows;
a plurality of dilution holes which allows the air flowing over the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side in order to provide dilution of an air/fuel mixture, the dilution holes being distributed in circumferential rows;
a plurality of cooling orifices which enables the air flowing over the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side in order to form a film of cooling air along said wall, said cooling orifices being distributed in a plurality of circumferential rows that are spaced apart axially from one another, the number of cooling orifices being identical in each of the rows; and
a plurality of bores disposed immediately downstream from the primary holes and from the dilution holes and distributed in circumferential rows,
wherein the bores in any one row include a substantially identical diameter, are spaced apart at a constant pitch, and include intrinsic characteristics that are different from intrinsic characteristics of the cooling orifices of the adjacent rows, and
wherein the angle of inclination of the bores in a given row relative to a normal to the wall is different from the angle of inclination of the cooling orifices of the adjacent rows.
2. The wall according to claim 1 , wherein the number of bores in a given row is different from the number of cooling orifices in the adjacent rows.
3. The wall according to claim 2 , wherein the number of bores in the given row is greater than the number of cooling orifices in the adjacent rows.
4. The wall according to claim 1 , wherein the diameter of the bores in a given row is different from the diameter of the cooling orifices of the adjacent rows.
5. The wall according to claim 4 , wherein the diameter of the bores in the given row is greater than the diameter of the cooling orifices of the adjacent row.
6. A turbomachine combustion chamber including at least one annular wall according to claim 1 .
7. A turbomachine including a combustion chamber having at least one annular wall according to claim 1 .
8. The wall according to claim 1 , wherein the angle of inclination of the bores relative to the normal to the wall is zero and the angle of inclination of the cooling orifices of the adjacent rows is between 30° and 70°.
9. The wall according to claim 1 , wherein the pitch between the bores in any one row is measured as a distance in a circumferential direction between a center of a bore and a center of an adjacent bore.