Ernesto Benini

University of PaduaItaly

Dr. Ernesto Benini is currently Associate Professor of Fluid Machinery at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, where he first obtained his MSc in Mechanical Engineering and then his PhD in Energy Technology. His research experience is mainly focused on gas turbine engine design and optimization with particular emphasis on aero-thermodynamics of turbomachinery. He authored more than 200 research articles on these topics, the largest part on international refereed journals and congresses.

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Gas turbine engines will still represent a key technology in the next 20-year energy scenarios, either in stand-alone applications or in combination with other power generation equipment. This book intends in fact to provide an updated picture as well as a perspective vision of some of the major improvements that characterize the gas turbine technology in different applications, from marine and aircraft propulsion to industrial and stationary power generation. Therefore, the target audience for it involves design, analyst, materials and maintenance engineers. Also manufacturers, researchers and scientists will benefit from the timely and accurate information provided in this volume. The book is organized into five main sections including 21 chapters overall: (I) Aero and Marine Gas Turbines, (II) Gas Turbine Systems, (III) Heat Transfer, (IV) Combustion and (V) Materials and Fabrication.

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Advances in Gas Turbine TechnologyEdited by Ernesto Benini

By Ernesto Benini

Part of the book: Gas Turbines

State-of-Art of Transonic Axial Compressors

By Roberto Biollo and Ernesto Benini

Part of the book: Advances in Gas Turbine Technology

Numerical Study of Support Interferences on the SOAR Separation Wind Tunnel Test

By Alberto Ghiraldo, Sebastien Paris and Ernesto Benini

A process of support design for wind tunnel models and the evaluation of interferences effect are described in this chapter. The work was performed at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI; Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium), and it was commissioned by the S3-Swiss Space System company. The work concerns the separation wind tunnel test of the Suborbital Aircraft Reusable (SOAR) vehicle from an Airbus commercial plane carrier. The supports are designed for future separation wind tunnel test of the SOAR version V10 in the VKI-S1 wind tunnel. They are designed in scale 1:180 for the test of the SOAR in the presence of the Airbus and in scale 1:80 for the SOAR alone test. Two different shapes of support (circular and elliptic) are tested in each case. First there are the supports designed, then the results of the finite element method (FEM) static structural analysis and vibrational analysis, and finally the result of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) campaign. The flow and the force interferences caused by the support are investigated by comparing simulations with and without support. The behavior of the two shapes and of the dimensional variations are investigated at an angle of attack between 0° and 15° and at Mach 0.7.

Part of the book: Recent Progress in Some Aircraft Technologies

Ernesto Benini

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