Progress in Turbomachinery Technology for Propulsion

Dear Colleagues,

The evolution of aircraft transport towards the binding requirement of environmental compatibility and socio-economical sustainability is facing huge challenges in the design and integration of future powerplants in hybrid electric boundary layer ingesting (BLI) vehicles. Despite their complexity, and the impressive advancements which have occurred in gas turbine technology in recent decades, uncountable scientific and technological challenges remain to be faced for a proper environmental transition following international regulations, such as novel design methodologies for distortion-tolerant turbomachinery, efficient computational methods for multi-disciplinary simulations, aeromechanical design and stability in the presence of inflow distortion, aeroacoustics of podded or fuselage-embedded engines, turbo-electric engines design and heat management, and the efficient testing of highly integrated propulsion. 

The Special Issue aims to collect the latest research results related to analytical, computational, or experimental methods advancing turbomachinery technology for propulsion. Original research or review papers illustrating significant contributions to design or analysis techniques, fundamental physics, applications, and performance improvement in gas turbines are welcomed. Representative topics include, for instance, design methodologies for gas turbine components; coupled methods for propulsion system integration; numerical/experimental analyses of gas turbine engines at the system or component level; aeromechanical design and analysis of turbomachinery; novel numerical tools for multi-disciplinary simulation; design and testing of low noise propulsor; hybrid electric and boundary layer ingestion (BLI) propulsion systems; and open rotors, turboprop, or electric fan engines.

Dr. Andrea Magrini
Prof. Dr. Ernesto Benini
Guest Editors

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