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Center for Intelligent Propulsion & Advanced Life Management

Ohio Research Scholar Program (ORSP) Sponsor: Ohio Third Frontier

Led By: University of Cincinnati

Center Director: Dr. Awatef Hamedhttp://ceas.uc.edu/CIPALMS.html

Email: a.hamed@uc.edu, Tel: (513) 556-3553

Total Funds from OTF: $27.5M; Required Matching Fund: $27.5M• Endowment : $12.5 M to UC ($7.5M), UD ($2.5M) and OSU ($2.5M)• Recruitments and Capital fund: $15M

• research teams and recruitment packages

• center operation: $0.2M

Proposals reviewed by: National Academy of Sciences

Center for Intelligent Propulsion Research Scholars

Dr. Jong Guen LeeUC (Jan. 2011)

Dr. Francesco SimonettiUC (Mar. 2011)

Dr. Datta GaitondeOSU (Sept. 2010)

Dr. Heinz RobotaUDRI (2009)

Dr. Awatef HamedCenter Director

Center for Intelligent Propulsion Faculty

Dr. Ephraim GutmarkDr. Peter B. NagyDr. San-Mou Jeng

Dr. David MundayDr. Asif SyedDr. Mark TurnerDr. Paul Orkwis

Center Objectives:• To conduct leading edge multidisciplinary research to sustain the

State of Ohio undisputed leadership position in aircraft engine manufacturing and development.

• To assist Ohio economic development and job creation

Research Scholars’ Technical Areas:– Components Prognosis &Life Management (Francesco Simonetti, UC)– Advanced Low Emissions Combustion (Jong Guen Lee, UC)– Thermal Management of Power & Propulsion Systems (open at UC)– Advanced Propulsion Systems Integration (Datta Gaitonde, OSU)– Alternate Fuels and Low Emission Combustion (Heinz Robota, UD),

Center Objectives & Technical Areas

Benchmarked Areas of Excellence & Funding Sources

• Aero acoustics

• Gas Turbine Combustion

• Turbine Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer

• Non Destructive Materials Characterization

• Erosion of Gas Turbine Components

Ephraim Gutmarkephraim.gutmark@uc.edu

GE (Aviation, Global Research, Power)• Reduction of commercial and military jet noise (4 joint patents)• Developing new afterburners concepts (1 joint patent)• Constant volume/pressure gain combustors (1 joint patent)• New methods for boiler cleaning (1 joint patent)• Turbine blades heat management and aerodynamics The Boeing Company• Shape Memory Alloys for vertical takeoff (V-22)• Heat transfer from advanced aerodynamic airfoils• Shock and flow separation control at high speeds (1 joint patent)Honeywell International, Inc.• Extension of surge margin in turbochargersHalliburton Company• Innovative hydrodynamics for oil drilling and production (1 joint patent)Siemens/Alstom/ABB• Prevention of thermoacoustic in power generation combustors (35 joint patents)Goodrich Aerospace• Multiple Lean-Direct Inject burners in high pressure combustors• Low emissions, efficient and stable “Flameless” combustion (1 joint patent)

GE Aviation• Acoustic characteristics of advanced high temperature

materials for thermal and acoustic insulation

Middle River Aircraft Systems (GE Aviation)• Development of double layer acoustic liners for aircraft

engine nacelles (acoustic suppression)Cornerstone Research Group/NASA• The effects of drainage slots (in the honeycomb) on the

acoustic suppression performance Hexcel Corporation• New product development based on honeycomb

structures

Asif Syedasif.syed@uc.edu

Duct Acoustics and Acoustic Liner Design

Combustion Research Laboratory San-Mou Jeng and Jong Guen Lee (jengsu@ucmail.uc.edu) (jongguen.lee@uc.edu)

Parker Hannifin Gas Turbine Fuel Systems

• Combustion and Spray • Characterization of spray at high-pressures• Reacting and non-reacting aerodynamics • Multi-swirl cup swirler-swirler interactions• Advanced multi-point Lean Direct Fuel Injection• Cokings in fuel nozzle and fuel line• Combustion dynamics measurements to assist model development • NOx emissions from a perfectly premixed combustor• Fuel/air mixing measurement in micro-mixing device using acetone-PLIF • Development of (a) high altitude relight facility and ignition study, (b) Flame

radiation emission probe (fiber-optic) for high pressure combustion chamber, and (3) Fuel vapor concentration probe using Infrared Extinction Technique

• Fire Safety and Thermal Management• FAA fire certifications and engineering tests• Fire resistant properties of advanced composite material• Spray cooling systems

GE (Aviation, Global Research, Power) and Parker Hannifin Gas Turbine Fuel Systems

Gas Turbine Simulation Lab (GTSL) Paul Orkwis and Mark G. Turner

orkwispd@ucmail.uc.edu mark.turner@uc.eduhttp://gtsl.ase.uc.edu/

Parker Hannifin Gas Turbine Fuel Systems

• Capabilities• Hardware: 1000+ cores in parallel cluster in protected network,

high memory workstations, 3D visualization, GPUs• Solvers: XDG, Tacoma, Overflow, Fine/Turbo, FDL3DI, CFX,

ANSYS• Post Processing: Tecplot, NPLOT3D, Asgard, Fieldview• Grid Generation: Pointwise, Numeca Autogrid &IGG• Turbomachinery Design: meanline, axisymmetric, 3D geometry

• Simulation Applications & Flow Physics • Compressor tip flows with unsteadiness and multistage apps• Turbine Aero and Cooling including hub cavity flows and

affects unsteadiness such as hot streak migration• Turbomachinery Design & Optimization• Supersonic Inlets & SWBLI, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, LES

• CFD Development• High Order Discontinuous Galerkin: 10-100 times faster!• Harmonic Balance• Optimization, Post Processing, GPUs

GE Aviation, AFRL, NASA, Siemens Energy, Cornerstone Research

Peter B. Nagypeter.nagy@uc.edu

GE (Aviation, Power)• Eddy current NDE of IN718 superalloy• Pulsed eddy current conductivity profilometry• Ultrasonic NDE of butt joints Rolls-Royce Corporation• Nonlinear ultrasonic NDE of diffusion bonded components• Nonlinear ultrasonic NDE of low-cycle fatigue in engine alloysHoneywell International, Inc.• NDE of non-voided hard alpha inclusions in titanium alloys• Residual stress profiling in nickel-base super alloysBombardier Aerospace• Fatigue crack detection and sizing in Learjet engine beam structureGeneral Motors Corporation • NDE of weld penetration on catalytic convertersWhemco Foundry• Eddy current NDE of microstructural variations

• Flow Control in Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions• Computational simulations of bleed hole row interactions with

shock/turbulent boundary layer interactions• Development of flow expansion physics bleed models for supersonic

inlet design

High Temperature Erosion LaboratoryPropulsion Simulation Laboratory

Awatef Hamed (hameda@ucmail.uc.edu)

NASA

• Erosion of Turbomachinery Blades and Thermal Barrier Coatings• Experimental investigation & simulations of blades and coatings

erosion by particle impacts at high velocities and temperatures

NASA, GE Aviation, Rolls Royce, BRYCOAT Inc, Expatial

GE Aviation

• Thermal Management• Optimization of aircraft environmental control systems• Subsystem modeling of the Adaptive Power Thermal Management

System (APTMS) for 5th Gen. military aircraft

UC Center Hill Campus5997 Center Hill Rd

UC College of Engineering & Applied Science

School of Aerospace Systems– Gas Turbine Simulation Lab– High Temperature Erosion Lab– Gas Turbine Combustion Lab– Combustion Research Lab

School of Dynamic Systems– Laboratory for In Vivo Radiological

Measurements– SAE student car engine evaluation

School of Advanced Structures– Large Scale Research/Test Lab

US EPA: Water Research Group

Prime Sponsors of supported research

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Prime Sponsors of supported research

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