Progress in Turbomachinery Technology for Propulsion (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Aircraft propulsion is seeing a continuous evolution towards innovative and unconventional configurations, pushed by the urgence of socio-economical and environmental sustainability. The challenges of designing novel, more efficient, environmentally friendly, and more flexible aerial vehicles are huge and involve a broad spectrum of domains, depending on the application, ranging from urban air mobility (UAM) with fully electrified or hybrid electric propulsion to supersonic flight with variable cycle engines, thus working towards turbofan engines with a ultra-high bypass ratio being used for commercial transport. In all cases, novelties in analytical models, methodologies for design and analysis, numerical approaches, technological processes, digital modelling, control and operation, experimental tests, and diagnostics and repair are driving continuous evolutionary and revolutionary progress in aircraft propulsors.

The Special Issue aims to collect the latest results related to, but not limited to, the aforementioned topics, involving new original outcomes or systematic review papers in the multi-disciplinary context of aircraft propulsion through turbomachinery and energy conversion systems. Authors are invited to submit novel significant contributions in analytical and numerical approaches, multi-disciplinary modelling, design and experimental methods, technological processes and manufacturing, system operation and integration, new propulsive concepts, layouts and thermodynamic cycles, and digital modelling.

Representative topics include the following:

• Design and analysis methodologies for gas turbine components;
• Numerical/experimental studies of gas turbine engines at system or component level;
• Novel numerical tools for multi-disciplinary simulation (mechanics, acoustics, etc.);
• Hybrid-electric and Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI) propulsion systems;
• Propellers, open rotors, turboprop or electric fan engines;
• Propulsion system installation, new propulsive configurations;
• Advances in thermodynamic cycles, engine modelling and control;
• Progress in gas turbine engine technology;
• New computational fluid dynamics approaches.

Dr. Andrea Magrini
Dr. Marco Casoni
Guest Editors

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