| Duke University Several faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science have ongoing, previous or planned research relevant to gas turbine development. Their research includes the following:
- Aeroelasticity
- Nonlinear dynamics and vibration
- Heat Transfer
- Thermodynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Vibration control
- Turbomachinery aerodynamics
- Computational fluid mechanics
- Rotor dynamics
- Fluid bearings/magnetic bearings
- Fluid mechanics
- Laser velocimetry
- Nonlinear dynamics
Our particular strengths as related to gas turbine research are structural and rotor dynamics, including aeroelastic fluid/structure interaction; fluid mechanics of turbomachinery flows; and heat transfer and thermodynamics.
Laboratory facilities pertinent to gas turbine research include the following:
- Subsonic wind tunnel 4 ft 2 test section, 275 ft/s velocity, computer controlled force measurement, computer controlled airfoil cutting.
- Rotor dynamics lab digital structural dynamics analyzer, Lab View data acquisition and control
- Acoustics/dynamics lab anechoic chamber, Lab View data acquisition
- Structural control lab dedicated digital data acquisition and control using distributed sensors and actuators
- Fluid dynamics lab laser velocimetry capability, local FIDAP computational capability
Computation
North Carolina Supercomputing Center provides access to Cray Y-MP and Kendall Square supercomputers, with fluid and solid mechanics software including FIDAP, BEASY, and ANAYS, plus extensive visualization capability through AVS and MPGS.
In addition, there is available—
- A school-wide network of workstations
- A variety of distributed microcomputing resources
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