Special topic:

Thermofluidic and Aerodynamic Optimizations for Turbomachinery

Topic summary:

Turbomachines are essential energy conversion elements widely adopted in industrial applications, such as land-based power generation and aircraft propulsion. A large number of investigations have been carried out to design turbomachines with higher thermal and aerodynamic performance. However, the raditional way of proceeding involves numerous simulations, error experiments, and separate trials. Optimization techniques can provide a powerful path to the most suitable design whilst considering multiple objectives, disciplines, or subsystems. Hence, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization methodologies have attracted lots of attention and have progressed enormously in recent years. More detailed, multi-disciplinary design optimization has become essential for solving complex engineering design problems by decomposing a problem into several sub-problems and collecting the local solutions to give a new design point for the original question.

However, some challenges are still encountered when applying optimization methodologies to design complex features, which can include complicated coupling effects and various uncertainties. Investigations on advanced optimization methods for thermofluidic, aerodynamic, aero-thermal, and aero-thermodynamic optimization problems need to be further carried out. The special issue of the CJA will bring leading researchers and engineers from both industry and academia together to present their latest research and original articles on recent advances in the field of thermofluidic and aerodynamic optimizations for turbomachinery.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Thermofludic or aerodynamic optimizations on turbomachinery by Design of Experiment (DOE) methods, Taguchi Methods, Surrogate models, Response Surface Methods (RSM), Kriging metamodels (KRG), Radial Basis Functions (RBF), Genetic Algorithms (GA), Annealing algorithms, Adjoint methods, Gradient-based Optimization method, etc.Other multi-disciplinary optimization methods for turbomachinery, such as Aero-thermal optimization, Aero-thermal-structural optimization, Aero-acoustic optimization, Aero-elastic optimization, Aero-thermo-elastic optimization, etc.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to the above-entioned optimization problems in turbomachinery.

Important dates:

Manuscript due: August 31, 2021.
Publication Month: June, 2022.
(an accepted paper will be available online with DOI number first in one month)

Submission guidelines:

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics is an international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal of aerospace engineering published by Elsevier. The latest SCI impactfactor is 2.215, which ranks JCR Q1 among journals of Aerospace Engineering.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically, adhering to the guidelines of the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. Please submit your papers through the online system(https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chinese-journal-of-aeronautics)and download the Title-Page from

http://hkxb.buaa.edu.cn/CN/column86.shtml.

Be sure to select the special issue or special section name(Special Topic: Thermofluidic and Aerodynamic Optimizations for Turbomachinery). Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the online system of the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.
If you have any problem, please contact Managing Editor Jiao Wang(CJA Editor)

Email: wangjiao@buaa.edu.cnTel: 18210535630, 010-82318016

 

Guest Editors:

Dr. Gongnan Xie, a Full Professor in Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. He was a postdoctoral researcher from January 2008 to October 2009 at the Department of Energy Sciences in Lund University, Sweden, and was a Visiting Professor from August 2016 to August 2017 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.
He is a member of scientific council of International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, and a committee member of ASME K14 Gas Turbine Heat Transfer. He currently serves as an Associate Editor or a member of Editorial Board for International Communications on Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology and other journals. He served as an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2014-2020) and has been serving as Track/Topic/Session Chair/co-Chairs for ASME Proceedings (Turbo Expo, SHTC, IMECE).

Dr. Ernesto Benini, graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering (1996), PhD in Energy Technology (2000), he iscurrently professor of "Propulsion Machines" at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy. He has more than twenty years of experience in the research and development of advanced methods for the design of fluid machines. He is responsible of numerous private and community research projects, as well as scientific advisor to major international companies in the propulsion sector. Member of ASME and AIAA. He serves as Associate Editor of authoritative scientific journals such as ASME "Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power" and "International Journal of Turbo & Jet Engines". Author and co-author of about 300 scientific publications concerning the Fluid Dynamics of Machines. He has received numerous awards for his academic and scientific activity, including numerous "Best Paper Awards", the gold medal forthe best Academic Curriculum and the New York Academy of Sciences nomination for the "Outstanding young researchers" award.

Dr. Richard Jefferson-Loveday, is Associate Professor at the Gas Turbines and Transmissions Research Centre (G2TRC) at the University of Nottingham. Prior tothis he was Senior Research Fellow at the Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He and his colleagues were recipients of the International Gas Turbine Institute Turbomachinery Committee Best Paper Award for their detailed investigations of wake-induced transition in turbines. Jefferson-Loveday is leading two European Cleansky II projects on CFD for low pressure turbines and oil systems and one EPSRC project developing CFD numerical methods. He is also Co-Ion an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership project investigating innovations in thermal management and machine learning. Through these he leads a team of fifteen researchers. In 2014 he was visiting researcher at HLRS Stuttgart where he developed CFD algorithms and is also a member of the UK Turbulence Consortium.

Dr. GuillermoPaniagua, a Full Professor at Purdue University, is a recognized authority in turbine research and development. He has steadily advanced the state-of-the-art in turbines, measurement techniques, and high-speed propulsion. After 18 years at the von Karman Institute, he joined Purdue in2014, where he has developed the largest academic turbine facility in the USA. Prof. Paniagua has pioneered innovative turbine research, specifically in bladed transonic turbines and counter-rotating turbines. He invented a new generation of turbines that operate efficiently under high supersonic inlet conditions suitable for hypersonic propulsion or detonation-based powerplants. He has delivered nearly 30 plenary and invited keynote talks at international conferences and workshops and about 50 seminars at universities and industry. Prof. Paniagua has published nearly 300 papers, namely 108 journal papers, 76 fully re-viewed conference papers and 110 conference proceedings such as AIAA. To date, Prof. Paniagua has directed the research efforts of more than 200 students (128 graduate, 78 undergraduate) and mentored 17 postdoctoral researchers.

He serves as chair of the Propulsion and the Fluid mechanics areas within the School of Mechanical Engineering, and in the organizing committee ASME TurboExpo 2021, Tutorial chair. He served as an Editor of the Elsevier Journal Measurement (2017-2019), and as an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Turbomachinery (2014-2020). He organized twice the European Symposium on Measurement Techniques. He also served twice as the conference point of contact for the AIAA conferences. He has chaired approximately 60 sessions at ASME and AIAA conferences.