General Electric Company
COMPONENT FOR A TURBINE ENGINE WITH A FILM HOLE

Abstract:

An apparatus and method relating to a film hole of a predetermined inner dimension in a component of a turbine engine that generates a hot combustion gas flow, and provides a cooling fluid flow, where a wall separates the hot combustion gas flow from the cooling fluid flow and defines a hot surface along which the hot combustion gas flows in a hot flow path and a cooled surface facing the cooling fluid flow including forming the hole in the component and applying a coating to the component such that the coating fills in portions of the film hole.