Descrizione del progetto
Ricercatori in fase iniziale di carriera: dare energia a una nuova generazione di turbine a gas in Europa
Con l’avvicinarsi dell’Europa agli obiettivi in materia di sostenibilità e clima, le turbine a gas continueranno a svolgere un ruolo essenziale nel settore dell’energia e della mobilità. Dovranno però operare in modi insoliti, in condizioni operative diverse e con materiali diversi rispetto a come sono state utilizzate per decenni. L’ottimizzazione dei progetti richiederà modelli avanzati che utilizzino il calcolo ad alte prestazioni per simulare le dinamiche strutturali e le vibrazioni, aree in cui l’Europa è attualmente svantaggiata. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto EXPERTISE formerà una nuova generazione di ricercatori in fase iniziale di carriera per affrontare le sfide dell’industria europea delle turbine relative alla dinamica strutturale non lineare e al calcolo ad alte prestazioni.
Obiettivo
Energy and Mobility are two primary driving forces in the 21st century. Development of incremental and disruptive technologies will have key impacts on the world’s societies, and on safety, security and competitiveness of Europe. Amongst those technologies, gas turbines will play a major role. Recovery of shale gas depends decisively on compressors. Modern gas supplied power plants are bridging towards the age of renewable energies. Aeroengines are to undergo the most massive changes in their history with the advent of composite materials, gear boxes, and turbine-electric concepts separating generation of power and thrust. A technological commonalities of the upcoming challenges is the need for full model based development and computer system simulation.
There is agreement on this in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community. The structural dynamics and vibration questions are at present far from being addressed adequately. While US agencies and Asian powers have already started to prepare themselves, European research organisations and companies still seem to be too fragmented to reach critical research ressources and start corresponding initiatives. There are two main reasons for this. First, the physics of mechanical joining technologies that dominate the damping behavior of the large-scale structures under debate, are still poorly understood. Second, there is a lack of high performance computing (HPC) capabilities in structural dynamics, which goes back to the lack of knowledge of effective HPC technologies for structural dynamics.
Since the US, China and India have started efforts in the field, we propose a European contribution through a Marie Curie ETN to allow a first generation of early stage researchers to catch up on the topics, ideally open up new fields of insight and approaches, and finally form a seed group for the upcoming challenges of the European turbine industry with respect to nonlinear structural dynamics and HPC.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gas
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinatore
10129 Torino
Italia