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2023 GT India Program Tracks

Track Chair: Anil Samale, Siemens Energy India

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in Compressors, Fans and Pumps are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Compressor Design
  • Compressor Experiments
  • Transonic Compressor Design
  • Fan Design
  • Design Concepts
  • Test Rig & Facility Design
  • Stall & Inlet Distortion
  • End-Wall Flows & Passage Contouring
  • Water Ingestion, Fogging & Pre-Cooling
  • Transition & Roughness Effects
  • Manufacturing & Deterioration Effects
  • Tip-Clearance Flows
  • Seal & Leakage Flows
  • Casing Treatment
  • Tandem Airfoils
  • Flow Control

Track Chair: Dr. Debasish Biswas, Toshiba R&D Center

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in Turbines are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Aerodynamic Performances and Design
  • Aerodynamic Losses
  • Aerodynamic Studies
  • Unsteady Flows and Transition
  • Tip Leakage Flows
  • End-wall Profiling
  • Low Pressure Turbine Aerodynamics
  • Steam Turbine Last Stage Bucket Design
  • Wet steam or non-equilibrium condensation in Steam Turbine

Track Chair: Dr. Kalicharan, Infosys

Description: This track includes heat transfer aspects of turbomachinery related to internal and film cooling. Papers describing research and technical advances in this area are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Blade/Vane film cooling
  • Internal air & seal, experimental, analytical, and numerical studies of flow and heat transfer phenomena in rotating cavities, rotor/stator systems and seals
  • Heat transfer in rotor support and oil systems
  • Secondary air systems analysis involving component interactions and system performance
  • Additive manufacturing impact on heat transfer
  • Experimental methods for heat transfer
  • Numerical analysis of heat transfer
  • Design tool development and validation
  • Heat exchangers and recuperators

Track Chair: Dr. Pankaj Saha, Siemens Energy India

Description: The Combustion, Fuels & Emissions sessions will highlight new technology and design approaches, using both experimental and computational techniques, employed to achieve improved combustor performance including ultra-low pollutant emissions and enhanced operability such as turndown and transient response. Broad trends include a continued focus on combustion dynamics for lean-staged combustion systems, significant innovation in the development of combustion system such as Dry Low NOx or novel rotary detonation, maturation of large eddy simulation analyses, as well as continued research of fundamental and applied topics in automation, mixing, ignition, autoignition, blowout and chemical kinetics. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Alternate Fuels
  • Atomization & Sprays
  • Novel Combustion Concepts
  • Flashback & Blowout
  • Combustor Design & Development
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Combustion Noise
  • Pollutant Emissions: Modeling, Soot and Particulates
  • Combustion Dynamics: Basic Mechanisms, Flame Response to Perturbations, Instability, Analysis, Model Development and Damping & Control
  • Combustion Modeling: Combustor Simulations and Large Eddy Simulations
  • High Hydrogen Combustion
  • Dry Low-NOx Combustor Development
  • Combustor Diagnostics

Track Chair: Soumik Dasgupta, GE Research

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in Structure and Dynamics for turbomachinery are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Aerodynamics Excitation & Damping
  • Bearing & Seal Dynamics
  • Fatigue, Fracture & Life Prediction
  • Rotodynamic
  • Structural Mechanics & Vibration
  • Probabilistic Methods
  • Emerging Methods in Design & Engineering

Track Chair: Dr. Dhiman Chatterjee, IIT Madras

Description: The technical research papers in this track will cover aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, structures, condition monitoring of wind turbines, the interaction of wind turbines with other energy systems, wind farms, and floating offshore wind turbines. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Structures and Aeroelastic Behavior
  • Design and Optimization
  • Wind Energy Systems
  • Modelling of Wind Turbine Flows
  • Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
  • Operation & Condition Monitoring
  • Small Wind Turbines
  • Noise
  • Blade Aerodynamics
  • Reliability and Risk Analysis
  • Wind Farms
  • Offshore wind turbines

Track Chair: Muralidhar Manavalan, Heart Aerospace

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in turbomachinery auxiliary system. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Intakes – Nacelles, Nozzles, Mixers,
  • Exhaust – Diffusers, Condensers
  • Thrust reversers
  • Fuel/Oil system
  • GT starting devices
  • Gear box

Track Chair: Debdulal Das, Siemens Energy India

Description: Development in manufacturing technologies, including better process planning/optimization, advance machining operations, additive manufacturing, newer coating, and repair methods, helps to reduce the manufacturing cost and/or improve durability of turbomachinery components. This track will include latest research and advances in manufacturing methods, repair/coating processes and component inspections. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
  • Thermal Barrier Coatings
  • Gas Turbine Component Degradation and Life Prediction
  • Advances in Gas Turbine Materials
  • Advanced Repair Technologies
  • Advanced Turbomachinery Manufacturing

Track Chairs: Anurag Agarwal, GE Aerospace & Megha Navalgund, GE

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in analytics and digital solutions for gas turbines and rotating machinery are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Surrogate models
  • Reduced Order Modeling
  • Inverse Design
  • Condition monitoring and IIOT
  • Predictive and Diagnostic Models
  • Digital Twin
  • Performance optimization
  • Autonomous Operations
  • Soft Sensing

Track Chairs: Pradeep V, GE Research

Description: Sessions within this track address issues of interest across a broad spectrum of aircraft engine technology subjects. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Whole Engine Performance and Novel Concepts
  • Propellers and Open Rotors
  • Propulsion System Integration in Conventional and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft
  • Modeling, Simulation and Validation

Track Chairs: Dr. Suresh MVJJ, GE Vernova

Description: Papers describing research and technical advances in turbomachinery performance, operation and maintenance are invited to be submitted to this track. Relevant topic areas include:

Topics:

  • Thermodynamic cycle and performance analyses
  • Part load performance
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Operational efficiency
  • Advances in inspection technologies
  • Remote diagnostics
  • Prognostics

Track Chairs: Dr. Chetan Mistry, IIT Kharagpur

Description: The ASME GT India Executive Committee is once again sponsoring a student poster display competition at the conference. Student posters will be on display on the main exposition floor.