The Chair of Thermal Turbomachinery and Aero Engines is working on several projects, which are mainly financed by public funding programs (DFG, BMWi, MERCUR), but also in cooperation with different industrial partners.
In the following, you will find an overview of the projects currently being worked on at the chair as well as those already completed.

• Blade aeroelasticity in transient operation of expansion turbines
  Work package 1.2: "Fluid-structure interactions under variable operating conditions" (SchauTex)
• AG Turbo Joint project: Digitalization and interdisciplinary design technologies of turbomachinery for the energy transition (DigITecT)
  Subproject: Radial expanders in energy storage applications (WP 2.2b)
  Experimental and numerical investigation of the influence of manufacturing-related surface quality of turbine blades on turbine performance (WP 2.3c)
• Analysis of maintenance models for hybrid electric aero engines (AWARE)

• SPP 2403 Priority Programme “Carnot Batteries: Inverse Design from Markets to Molecules”
  Programme Board
  Project Area C 
• SFB/Transregio 129 "OXYFLAME - Development of methods and models to describe the reaction of solid fuels in an oxy-fuel atmosphere"
• SFB/Transregio 287 "BULK-REACTION - Gas-flowed, moving debris with chemical reaction"

• Robust turbomachinery for flexible use;
  Subproject 4.7: "Hybrid and LES methods for the calculation of transient inhomogeneous flows in gas turbines" (Roboflex 4.7)
• "Advanced numerical and experimental investigations of modern aerodynamic components of a radial expander stage" - Part B (ECOFLEX-turbo 4.2.7B).
• Cryogenic air energy storage (KRYOLENS)
• Decentralized gas turbine plants for fast reserves in combination with renewable energy conversion - validation of technologies, Subproject: "Influence of hot gas streaks on turbine discharge" (Green Belt)
• Decentralized gas turbine systems for fast reserves in combination with renewable energy generation - "Optimization of flow guiding components" (Green Earth)
• "Development of innovative measurement technology for flow analysis in steam turbines" (COOREFLEX-turbo 4.1.10C)
• "Analysis of fluid-structure interactions for the prediction of blade vibrations" (COOREFLEX-turbo 4.1.8)
• "Numerical investigations of the aeroelastic behavior of a highly loaded fan" (Fan Tip).
• "Optimized extraction/addition steam modules in compressor drives" (COORETEC-turbo 4.2.3)
• "Expansion optimization in a compressor drive model turbine" (COORETEC-turbo 4.2.4A)
• "Expansion optimization in a compressor drive model turbine" (COORETEC-turbo 4.2.4B)

• "Influence of periodic wakes on near-wall unsteady flow in axial turbine ring grids" (PAK948)
• "Instationäre Strömung und Fluid-Struktur-Interaktionen in voll- und teilbeaufschlagten Turbinen" (ISIVUTT)
• "Instationäre Sekundärströmungen in Axialturbinen" (PAK 530)

• "Unsteady flow and fluid-structure interactions in fully and partially pressurized turbines"
• "Unsteady Secondary Flows in Axial-Powered Turbines". (KONTEST)

• Experimental analysis of the flow in a generic extraction module (MERCUR)
• "Development and construction of a test rig for the investigation of flow phenomena in flow mixing/separation in turbomachinery."