Projects

This project aims to improve the fundamental understanding of brush seals by making measurements in large-scale, simplified experiments.

Assessing the technical feasibility of producing additively manufactured cooled high-temperature capable radial turbomachinery in nickel superalloys.

This project combines experiment, computation and theory to generate a fundamental understanding of buoyancy-induced rotating flow.

Our project will build a highly-modular rig to obtain fluid dynamic and heat transfer data on test pieces subjected to coupled film and internal cooling.

We are developing a novel type of compliant shaft seal to reduce leakage flows in high pressure gas turbines

Ingress is one of the most important of the cooling-air problems, with considerable international research effort devoted to finding acceptable design criteria.

An experimental and computational study of the interaction between the purge and mainstream flows, and their influence on the secondary flow-field.

This programme will provide insight into the thermal effect of ingress in gas turbines and inform the design of cooling systems for SAFRAN Aircraft Engines.

We aim to understand the dynamic response of gas lubricated face seals and to redesign the seal to improve sealing performance.