ASME TurboExpo 2018 Best Paper Awards
Announced at the current 2019 TurboExpo, 30 papers presented and published last year have been selected for special recognition. Per the IGTI guidelines, these best papers "will be recognized on the basis of outstanding writing quality, a high degree of originality, and they will constitute an unusual contribution to the science of engineering." As such, award worthy papers are considered in the top 1% of each subject category. In so doing, these 30 papers will be open to the public.
Available as individual paper downloads.
Aircraft Engine
Effects of Transient Heat Transfer on Compressor Stability
A. Kiss, Z. Spakovszky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Paper No: GT2018-75413
Ceramics
In-Situ Assessment of Fracture in SiCf/SiC Under Computed X-Ray Tomography
M. R. Bache
Swansea University, Swansea, UK
P. I. Nicholson, E. Williams
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot, UK
Paper No: GT2018-75795
Coal, Biomass & Alternative Fuels
Philippe Dagaut, Yuri Bedjanian, Guillaume Dayma, Benoît Grosselin, Manolis Romanias, Roya Shahla
CNRS-INSIS, Orléans, France
Fabrice Foucher
PRISME Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France
Paper No: GT2018-75136
Combustion, Fuels & Emissions
Effects of a Diverging Cup on Swirl Number, Flow Patternand Topology of Premixed Flames
A. Degeneve, C. Mirat, R. Vicquelin, T. Schuller
Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
P. Jourdaine, J. Caudal
Air Liquide, Les Loges en Josas, France
Paper No: GT2018-76152
Philippe Versailles, Antoine Durocher, Jeffrey M. Bergthorson
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Gilles Bourque
Siemens Canada Limited, Montréal, QC, Canada
Paper No: GT2018-77018
Controls, Diagnostics & Instrumentation
Intelligent Reasoning for Gas Turbine Fault Isolation and Ambiguity Resolution
Liang Tang, Allan J. Volponi
Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT
Paper No: GT2018-75540
Cycle Innovations
Manuel Martín
Abengoa Power, Seville, Spain
David Sánchez
University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Paper No: GT2018-77090
Education
Teaching Gas Turbine Technology to Undergraduate Studentsin Sweden
Ioanna Aslanidou, Valentina Zaccaria, Nathan Zimmerman, Konstantinos G. Kyprianidis
Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
Evangelia Pontika, Anestis I. Kalfas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Paper No: GT2018-77074
Fans & Blowers
Till M. Biedermann, F. Kameier
University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
C. O. Paschereit
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Paper No: GT2018-75369
Heat Transfer
Influence of Leakage Flows on Hot Gas Ingress
Marios Patinios, Irvin L. Ong, James A. Scobie, Gary D. Lock, Carl M. Sangan
University of Bath, Bath, UK
Paper No: GT2018-75071
The Effects of Combustor Cooling Features on Nozzle GuideVane Film Cooling Experiments
Nicholas E. Holgate, Peter T. Ireland
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Eduardo Romero
Rolls-Royce plc, Bristol, UK
Paper No: GT2018-75249
Bogdan Cernat, Marek Pátý, Cis De Maesschalck, Sergio Lavagnoli
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium
Paper No: GT2018-76564
Marek Pátý, Bogdan Cernat, Cis De Maesschalck, Sergio Lavagnoli
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium
Paper No: GT2018-76567
Industrial & Cogeneration
An Introduction Into the Clearance Management of Ansaldo GT36 From Development to Validation
S. Boeller, B. Feuillard, G. Filkorn, S. Olmes, F. Prou, C. Robson, R. Santos
Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG, Baden, Switzerland
Paper No: GT2018-75652
Thomas Bexten, Manfred Wirsum, Björn Roscher, Ralf Schelenz, Georg Jacobs, Daniel Weintraub, Peter Jeschke
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Paper No: GT2018-76688
Manufacturing Materials & Metallurgy
Yoshihide Imamura, Ken Ikawa, Kojiro Motoyama, Hayato Iwasaki, Takeo Hirakawa
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Akashi, Japan
Hiroshi Utsunomiya
Osaka University, Suita, Japan
Paper No: GT2018-75588
Marine
CMAS Effects on Ship Gas-Turbine Components/Materials
D. A. Shifler
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
S. R. Choi
Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, MD
Paper No: GT2018-75865
Microturbines, Turbochargers & Small Turbomachines
Experimental Investigation of an Inverted Brayton Cycle for Exhaust Gas Energy Recovery
Ian Kennedy, Zhihang Chen, Colin D. Copeland
University of Bath, Bath, UK
Bob Ceen
Axes Design Ltd., Malvern, UK
Simon Jones
HIETA Technologies Ltd., Bristol, UK
Paper No: GT2018-75386
Data-Driven Pre-Design Tool For Small Scale Centrifugal Compressorsin Refrigeration
Violette Mounier, Cyril Picard, Jürg Schiffmann
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Paper No: GT2018-76349
Oil & Gas Applications
A Method and Apparatus for Direct Enthalpy Rise Measurement for Gas Compression
Klaus Brun, Sarah Simons, Kelsi Katcher, Ryan Cater, Brandon Ridens
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
Rainer Kurz
Solar Turbines, Inc., San Diego, CA
Paper No: GT2018-75020
Steam Turbines
Takanori Shibata, Kiyoshi Segawa
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Hitachi, Japan
Hisataka Fukushima
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Takasago, Japan
Paper No: GT2018-75269
Second Law Analysis of Condensing Steam Flows
Marius Grübel, Markus Schatz, Damian M. Vogt
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Paper No: GT2018-76388
Structures & Dynamics
Luis San Andrés, Bonjin Koo
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Sung-Hwa Jeung
Ingersoll Rand, La Crosse, WI
Paper No: GT2018-76224
Extending the Life of F-Class Gas Turbine Rotors
Scott Keller, David Day
Power Systems Mfg, LLC (PSM), Jupiter, FL
Paper No: GT2018-76925
Rotational Speed-Dependent Contact Formulation for Nonlinear Blade Dynamics Prediction
Torsten Heinze, Lars Panning-von Scheidt, Jörg Wallaschek
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Andreas Hartung
MTU Aero Engines AG, München, Germany
Paper No: GT2018-75290
Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles
Timothy C. Allison, Natalie R. Smith, Jason C. Wilkes
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
Robert Pelton, Sewoong Jung
Hanwha Power Systems, Houston, TX
Paper No: GT2018-77026
Turbomachinery
Chunill Hah
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Paper No: GT2018-75040
Evolution Process of Diffuser Stall in a Centrifugal Compressor with Vaned Diffuser
Nobumichi Fujisawa, Tetsuya Inui, Yutaka Ohta
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Paper No: GT2018-75462
The Role of Vortex Shedding in the Trailing Edge Loss of Transonic Turbine Blades
A. P. Melzer, G. Pullan
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Paper No: GT2018-75707
Wind Energy
D. Holst, B. Church, F. Wegner, G. Pechlivanoglou, C. N. Nayeri, C. O. Paschereit
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Paper No: GT2018-76514