Excellence in Turbomachinery Research: The Best of the 12th European Turbomachinery Conference

摘要

Turbomachines are undoubtedly the key components of all power systems, and despite theimpressive advances of the past century, there seems to still be room for improvement. While thereduction in the specific fuel consumption directly related to the components efficiency enhancementis the most natural and pursued objective, other aspects progressively acquire importance. Noise, life,reliability, and safety, to quote a few examples, require technological leaps that can only stem fromsolid, well-conceived, fundamental, and applied research. Those concerns are equally shared by thepower generation world, the aerospace community, and the automotive one, all mainly focused onefficiency innovations.