Gala dinner @ASME ORC 2015

Visit of Dr. Emil GÖTTLICH

Dr. Emil GÖTTLICH

We are glad that our colleague Dr. Emil GÖTTLICH from the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics at the Graz University of Technology, is visiting the LFM and the CREA Lab for two months. Emil will work with Fabio Cozzi on a novel Background-Oriented Schlieren bench and contribute to optical measurements in the TROVA.

Welcome Emil!

First experiment in the TROVA!

Today, March, Friday 13th, 2015, we run the first experiment in the TROVA! We observed a two-phase flow of MDM from a 3 bar 200 C reservoir.

Preliminary results for Virtual Schlieren visualization in SU2

The pictures show preliminary result for virtual Schlieren visualization of a shock wave (bright line) and a rarefaction fan (dark region).
Top left picture shows the result obtained with a knife angle of 90 deg, a knife angle of 45 deg produces result shown in top right figure while in the bottom row are presented respectively a knife angle of 0 deg and an angle of 31 deg.
This latter value is the one corresponding to the shock-wave slope, so thath's why the shock is badly highlighted!
Tthe flow field was computed using SU2!

We're currently working on CUDA implementation, results will be available soon!

Stanford life

Apple store on University Avenue

Stanford campus

We had a wonderful time in Palo Alto working with Juan J. Alonso, Francisco Palacios and Thomas Economon from Stanford University on the extension of SU2 to deal with non-ideal compressible-fluid flows, together with Piero Colonna, Matteo Pini and Salvo Vitale from TU Delft.

Working hard in Plzen

ESCO 2014 Conference in Plzen, CZ

Inaugural lecture of prof. Piero Colonna

On May 16th, prof. Piero Colonna gave his inaugural lecture at the Senaatszaal of the Aula, in Delft, as Full Professor of the Chair of Propulsion and Power of the Aerospace Faculty.

You can watch the video of the ceremony here.

Congratulations Piero!