Thermo-Fluids

Thermo-Fluids Research Centre (TFRC)

The TFRC is an internationally leading centre in fundamental and applied research in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer and fluid-structure interactions

About the Centre

The TFRC is committed to interdisciplinary research methods needed for understanding the intrinsic physical phenomena in thermo- and fluid flow processes, as realised from molecular/nano- to macro-scales and their wide range of engineering applications addressing global challenges such as energy efficiency, emissions reduction and bio-engineering applications aiming towards improving well-being.

The centre computational and analytical tools and experimental facilities are devoted to conducting research in a range of applications from micro-scale devices to waste heat recovery, renewable energy systems, compressors, turbines, fuels and additives technology for a wide range of combustion engines, electrification technologies and various hydraulic/lubrication fluids and systems. Application areas include power generation, transport, oil and gas, marine, food and health.

Advanced optical, laser and X-ray diagnostic techniques are assisting in the development of computational mechanics software for turbulent compressible and incompressible flows incorporating real-fluid thermodynamics. Heat and mass transfer, phase-change, fluid-structure interactions and complex chemical processes are addressed. Research is conducted in collaboration with global centres of excellence and relevant industry.

Research in the ThermoFluids Research Centre is organised in three areas:

  • Multi-phase flow research group led by Professor Manolis Gavaises
  • Turbomachinery and Energy Systems research group led by Professor Abdulnaser Sayma
  • Centre for Compressor Technology led by Professor Ahmed Kovacevic

Research Areas

The TFRC research areas are conducted experimentally and numerically and can be categorised under the following themes:

Experiments for for quantifying physical phenomena from nano- to meso- & macro-scales and their wide range of application:

  • Advanced optical, laser and X-ray diagnostic techniques
  • Gas turbines, compressors and expanders, fuel and hydraulic systems, fuel sprays for IC engines, propellers
  • Organic Rankine Cycles and supercritical carbon dioxide cycles
  • Microfluidics and nanofluidics

Development of in-house computational mechanics multi-phase & multi-physics and design and analysis codes:

  • Turbulent, compressible/incompressible flows
  • Real-fluid thermodynamics, elastic, plastic and soft materials
  • Heat and sass transfer & phase-change
  • Fluid-structure interactions
  • Chemical processes
  • Turbomachinery analysis and design tools for ideal and non-ideal fluids

Facilities

A number of well-equipped test cells operate in the centre. Expertise exists in flow optical and laser diagnostics, instrumentation and design. Equipment/techniques available include: RIM, LDV, PDA, SPIV, PLIF, LIEF, LE and LSD, Yag and Excimer lasers, numerous high speed cameras for shadowgraphy/Schlieren imaging, LIF-based lubricant film diagnostic system, fourier transform infrared analyser, fast-response FID Hydrocarbon, CO, CO2, and NOx analysers, transparent fuel nozzles, dynamic balancing machine for high speed shafts, high speed air motor drive (100,000 rpm), high speed motor drives (20 kW, 50,000 rpm), instrumented marine propellers and ultrasound system for erosion studies. Moreover, the Centre has exclusive use to PC clusters with more 1000cores, utilised for parallel CFD simulations.

Screw Compressor test laboratory

The screw compressor laboratory has three test rigs:

  1. Oil-injected air Screw Compressor test rig with variable frequency motor of 75kW, maximum air flow of 15 m3/min and maximum pressure up to 14 bar. The test rig meets CAGI and PNEUROP test standards where the testing procedures are carried out according to ISO 1706. The rig is certified by Lloyd’s register.
  2. Oil-free test rig for screw compressors up to 4 bar discharge pressure and discharge temperatures up to 225 deg C. The test rig allows classic performance testing and LDV testing of flows in the suction of oil free compressors.
  3. The Optical Roots blower test rig is used for study of leakage flows in narrow gaps in rotating machinery using LDV, PIV and high speed camera.Screw Co

Refrigeration and ORC test laboratory for compressors, expanders and turbines

The expander test facility is a modified vapour-compression system with partial cooling/condensation using modern refrigerants. This test facility can replicate typical operating conditions within an ORC system, and will be used to conduct experiments on two-phase expansion using twin-screw expanders.

Micro Gas Turbine Test rig

City has developed a state-of-the-art test facility for micro gas turbines and compressor and turbine characterisation. The test facility includes a high-pressure air supply, shop air, cooling water, combustion system, programmable electrical loading and an array of instrumentation with data acquisition and processing tools.

High Speed Linear Cascade Rig

A new high speed linear cascade test rig is available and can be utilised in the City Transonic Wind Tunnel. The rig is instrumented with PIV system, Infrared Camera and multi-hole probes. With modular design of the test section, various aerofoil profiles could be tested over a wide range of Mach and Reynolds numbers.

Research Projects

Ongoing Projects

AHEAD - ‘Advanced Techniques for Quantification and Modelling of Phase-Change Processes of Renewable Fuels and their Blends’

Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
Fellow: Dr I. Karathanassis, PI: Prof M. Gavaises, Co-I: Dr Lyle Pickett, Sandia National Labs, US
Budget: €252,000

Current international policies dictate the gradual disengagement of industry from fossil fuels within the next three decades. In order such a transition to become a reality, novel fuel delivery and combustion concepts capable of efficiently utilising biomass-derived fuels must be designed and developed. The main objective of ‘AHEAD’ is the simultaneous experimental characterisation of the phase-change processes within fuel injectors (cavitation and flash boiling) and at the nozzle exit (evaporation and trans/supercritical phase-change) under realistic injector configurations and air thermodynamic conditions for liquid biofuels, as well as their blends with fossil fuels. The obtained measurements will guide the formulation of novel numerical models quantifying the relevant mass/heat transfer processes. The project innovative nature spans across diverse research aspects with emphasis on renewable alternatives for Diesel and gasoline; it is expected to assist major energy and automotive industries to meet the goals imposed regarding the utilisation of renewable fuels.

EDEM - Experimentally Validated DNS and LES Approaches for Fuel Injection, Mixing and Combustion of Dual-Fuel Engines

Call: H2020-MSCA-EID-2018
PI: Prof M. Gavaises, Co-I: Dr I. Karathanassis
Budget: ⁓ €4,150,000 in total - €1,170,000 awarded to City

Economical, geopolitical and social trends, apart from the well-posed environmental concerns, have precipitated legislative actions for the partial substitution of Diesel by cleaner fuels and have boosted industrial interest on the development of IC engines capable of handling both liquid/gaseous fuel mixtures. The combustion process in these, so-called, dual-fuel engines comprises the compression ignition of Diesel fuel injected in a homogenized gaseous (or liquid) fuel/air mixture. At dual-fuel combustion, most Diesel fuel is burned in premixed combustion and, thus, soot formation is less. Furthermore, depending on the carbon content of the primary fuel, dual fuel operation mode can lead to significant decrease in CO2 emissions. The aim of ‘EDEM’ is to develop and validate DNS/LES methodologies for fuel injection, mixing and combustion processes relevant to conditions and fuels combustion strategies realised in dual-fuel engines. Furthermore, to apply the newly derived models to the design of more efficient engines and to estimate the environmental impact of the proposed concept.

I-BAT - Immersed-cooling Concepts for Electric Vehicle Battery Packs using Viscoelastic Heat Transfer Liquids

Call: H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
PI: Dr I. Karathanassis, Co-I: Prof M. Gavaises
Budget: ⁓ €2,950,000 in total - €838,000 awarded to City

The penetration of plug-in EVs in the world market faces considerable technological challenges. The performance of battery electric drives is influenced, among others, by the power density and efficiency of the EV Battery Thermal System (BTMS). Lithium-ion batteries require a temperature of 15-60 °C for optimal operation, with high demands on temperature uniformity between the cells. The power density of the battery cooling systems has to be doubled compared to current state-of-the-art to enable powerful and compact drives. This challenge is met by innovative coolants, which have shown considerable potential for increasing the cooling effect and reducing pump losses in basic investigations. The subject of work is the synthesis and characterisation of oil-based coolants with optimal rheological and thermal properties suitable for EV BTMSs. The novel fluids to improve heat transfer consist of a viscoelastic liquid carrier matrix with suspended nanoparticles.  The newly developed nano-coolants will be tested in a BTMS prototype to prove that these improvements have the potential to revolutionise the relevant transport sector.

Next generation waste-heat recovery systems based on two-phase expansion (RAEng Research Fellowship)

PI: Dr Martin White
Funder: RAEng
Project title: Next generation waste-heat recovery systems based on two-phase expansion
Start: Sep 2020
End: Aug 2024

The generation of power from waste heat using organic Rankine cycles (ORC) could be enhanced by up to 30% through two-phase expansion. However, this has not been successfully realised due to a lack of two-phase expanders. Dr White’s RAEng Research Fellowship seeks to explore the design of two-phase turbomachinery for this application through a combination of numerical and experimental investigations of two-phase expansion processes, and system optimisation of thermodynamic systems involving two-phase expansion. The ultimate aim of this research is to develop fundamental understanding, alongside advanced modelling and simulated methods, of the two-phase expansion of unconventional working fluids, and to investigate the concept at a laboratory scale.

NextMGT- Next Generation of Micros Gas Turbines for High Efficiency, Low Emissions and Fuel Flexibility

PI: Prof Naser Sayma
Co-I: Dr Jafar Al Zaili
Funder: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019
Project title: NextMGT- Next Generation of Micros Gas Turbines for High Efficiency, Low Emissions and Fuel Flexibility
Start: January 2020
End: December 2023
Website here

The overarching aim of this multidisciplinary, inter-sectoral project aims to train fifteen outstanding early stage researchers to be ready to meet the challenges in the field of micro gas turbine technology, economics, policy and regulations in addition to industrial and interdisciplinary training to contribute to realising the impact on the society and their career prospects. The primary objective of this four-year work programme is to undertake cutting edge multidisciplinary research and development to make a step change in understanding of MGT systems’ technology and commercialisation aspects to enable large increase in their share in the energy market and contribution to the low carbon economy while providing specialised training for 15 researchers to help establish the backbone of an important industry. Examine cycle innovations required to achieve high overall MGT efficiency to match other prime movers of similar power range and develop advanced methods to optimise micro gas turbine systems for several applications based on a standard core technology as well as smart integration with energy systems (WP1).

  1. Investigation of advanced combustion technologies for achieving low emissions and fuel flexibility including biofuels in solid, liquid and gaseous forms and combustible industrial residues (WP2).
  2. Develop innovative methods to enhance aerodynamic, mechanical and electrical aspects of MGTs and utilisation of new materials and to develop suitable storage systems to enable effective operation (WP3).
  3. Investigate the enabling measures to commercialisation of the technology focusing on dependence of innovation and industry growth on intellectual/industrial property management, energy policy and regulatory framework and standardisation requirements (WP4).
  4. To train ESRs using a structured programme which covers: individual personalised research projects that lead to their PhDs; specialised training courses offered by the participating institutions; network-wide training activities in the format of seminar, workshop, conference and summer schools, and knowledge exchange with the members of the network through activities such as secondments and events (WP5).
  5. To create wider impact in the relevant scientific arena and applications fields that come together in energy systems through wide communications dissemination of results including the general public (WP6).
  6. To manage the proposed programme according to the guidelines of the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Action and disseminate the knowledge that it acquires through international publications (WP7).

NextORC

SCOTWOHR

PI: Prof Naser Sayma
Co-I: Prof Manolis Gavaises, Dr Mathew Read, Dr Martin White
Funder: EPSRC
Project title: SCOTWOHR – Industrial waste heat recovery using supercritical carbon dioxide cycles
Start: Jan 2021
End: Dec 2023

Increased pressure on reducing the carbon footprint from energy intensive industry with substantial waste heat streams is leading to the need to develop efficient and cost-effective waste heat recovery technologies. Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) systems have significant potential for these applications, but there remain significant technical challenges that need to be overcome in relation to the key system components. The focus of this project is to improve the fundamental understanding of the performance sCO2 cycles and the design aspects of the key components, through targeting the following objectives:

  • to identify the optimal cycle configuration for sCO2 power systems with power outputs of a few hundred kilowatts for WHR applications (~ 400-800 °C) based on multi-objective techno-economic optimisation accounting for design and off-design operation with variable or intermittent heat stream;
  • to explore design innovations for small-scale sCO2 turbomachines that can extend beyond current state-of-the-art operating conditions, and improve fundamental understanding of condensation, non- ideal gas effects, and stability of sCO2 compressors operating near the critical point;
  • to investigate innovative heat exchanger designs, materials and fabrication methods for different cycle configurations and develop heat exchangers for direct high temperature (up to 800 °C) waste heat to supercritical fluid heat recovery;
  • to characterise the transient operation of small-scale sCO2 power systems operating at design and off-design conditions with variable or intermittent heat streams and identify suitable real-time control strategies to maximise system performance across a wide range of operating conditions.

Find more information about SCOTWOHR: Industrial waste heat recovery using supercritical carbon dioxide cycles here.

SCARABEUS

PI: Prof Naser Sayma
Co-I: Dr Martin White
Funder: H2020
Project title: SCARABEUS -Supercritical carbon dioxide/alternative fluid blends for efficiency upgrade of solar power plant
Start: Apr 2019
End: Mar 2023
Website here

City is leading the turbomachinery work package of the SCARABEUS project. The project aims to demonstrate that the application of supercritical CO2 blends to concentrated-solar power plants has the potential to reduce CAPEX by 30% and OPEX by 35% with respect to state-of-the-art steam cycles, thus exceeding the reduction achievable with standard supercritical CO2 technology. This translated into a levelized cost of electricity lower than 96 €/MWh, which is 30% lower than currently possible.

As the leader of work package 3, the team at City is focussing on the design of the turbomachinery components for the SCARABEUS project. The objectives are:

  • to develop innovative turbomachinery designs that can operate with high efficiency across the range of anticipated variable operating conditions;
  • to provide data to enable accurate calculations of cycle performance and costing of the proposed plant;
  • to identify a suitable pump for the system.

UNIFIED - Fuel injection from subcritical to supercritical P-T conditions: a unified methodology for coupled in-nozzle flow, atomisation and air-fuel mixing processes

Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Fellow: Dr Foivos Koukouvinis, PI: Prof M. Gavaises, Co-I: Dr Lyle Pickett, Sandia National Labs, US
Budget: €344,000

Fossil fuel consumption is expected to almost double over the next 3 decades in order to meet the increasing demand for infrastructure, trade and transportation. Development of engines complying with the forthcoming 2020 emission legislations, relies on the effective design of advanced high pressure fuel injection systems and represents a key industrial priority. Emissions can be reduced when fuel is injected against air at P-T conditions well above the fuel’s critical point; the prevailing supercritical fluid conditions result to disappearance of the liquid-gas interface, which in turn, reduces vaporisation time and enhances significantly air-fuel mixing. Combination of experiments (outgoing phase) with CFD simulations (return phase) of the in-nozzle flow, fuel atomisation and mixing processes under such conditions form the core subject of the proposed research. The experimental work includes currently unknown physical properties  measurements near the fuel’s critical point; these will be modelled with complex equations of state for a wide range of P-T conditions. Moreover, the state-of-the-art experimental techniques and equipment of the US host, will be employed for quantifying the near-nozzle fuel atomisation and mixing at those conditions. These experimental data will guide the development and validation of a new state-of-the-art CFD model able to couple the aforementioned multi-phase flow  processes through a combination of physical models and numerical methods. These include interface capturing of immiscible and diffused interfaces, scale-resolved turbulence, mass transfer rate (cavitation and vaporisation) and real-fluid thermodynamics addressing the compressibility effects for the liquid-vapour-air mixture. The project brings together research, academic and industrial experts from the US and Europe. It will advance scientific knowledge and will facilitate the design of less polluting engines for the benefit of the European area and society as a whole

UCOM – Ultrasound Cavitation in Soft Materials

Call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018
PI: Prof M. Gavaises, Co-I: Dr F.Koukouvinis
Budget: €4,211,733 (€1,1170,000 awarded to City)

The pressures and temperatures developing during the interactions of shockwaves with cavitation bubbles and soft matter induce complex phenomena, both at physical and biochemical levels. These have a non- exhaustive range of relevant applications including ultrasound-based therapies, surface cleaning and food processing. Our aim is to explore these processes both in micro and macroscales using experiments and to develop new computational capabilities for their simulations. Measurements will include temperature/ species forming in collapsing bubbles, identifying chemical reactions and possible tissue interaction, such as protein denaturation and agglomeration; tissue cavitation threshold and its control using nanoparticles, allowing development of new cavitation-mimicking-tissue materials extrapolating to actual tissue properties that will be used for in-vitro testing of equipment with minimum collateral damages. Computations will be based on advanced multi-resolution methods coupling fluid flow, chemical reactions and deforming material mechanics solvers, with physically consistent thermodynamic closure models for the involved materials; pressure wave propagation, bubble nucleation and material damage effects will link microscale phenomena to macroscale. Uncertainty quantification techniques will link computations with experimental data. UCOM builds upon the strong foundations of the PIs and their teams in training researchers in computational and experimental methods on cavitation and their strong record to successfully integrate research and technical applications. The final goal of the research and training program is to explore the enormous potential of the new and experimentally validated computational tools to guide breakthrough innovations and high-impact, high-tech technologies ranging across different sectors that all eventually enhance their careers and will be serving the well-being.

Completed projects

Research councils and funding bodies

PICo-IFunder Project TitleStart/End
Prof Manolis Gavaises Prof John Carlton The LRF International Institute for Cavitation Research 01/01/12
31/09/17
Prof Abdulnaser Sayma Prof Keith Pullen FP7 – Energy OMSoP - Optimised Microturbine Solar Power 01/01/13
31/07/17
Prof Manolis Gavaises   FP7- MSCA - IOF Cavitation bubble cloud dynamics and surface erosion in high pressure fuel systems for medium/heavy duty Diesel engines, Grant ID: 329286 16/02/14
14/02/17
Prof Manolis Gavaises   EPSRC Investigation of non-spherical droplets in high-pressure fuel sprays 05/02/14
04/02/17
Prof Manolis Gavaises   FP7- MSCA - IAPP Simulation of cavitation and erosion in FUEL injection SYSTEMs of medium/heavy duty Diesel engines at injection pressures reaching 3000bar, Grant ID: 324313 01/01/13
31/12/16
Prof Keith Pullen Prof Jamshid Nouri TSB Low cost laminated electric flywheel 01/04/14
31/03/16
Prof Manolis Gavaises   FP7 – MSCA - IOF Characterisation of Fuel Additives Effect on Fuel Injector Design’, Grant ID: 300410 01/04/13
31/03/16
Prof Manolis Gavaises   FP7 – MSCA - IEF Understanding non-spherical droplet vaporisation of single-component hydrocarbon fuels and multi-component biofuel blends’, Grant ID: 329116 02/02/14
01/02/16
Prof Keith Pullen Prof Abdulnaser Sayma TSB SLaME (Selective Laser Melting for Engines) 01/09/13
31/09/15
Prof Keith Pullen   EPSRC Vehicle Electrical System Integration (VESI) Phase 2 01/10/13
30/09/15
Prof Manolis Gavaises   FP7 -MSCA - IEF Droplet Impingement on Non-flat Surfaces’, Grant ID: 329500 01/07/13
30/06/15
Prof Keith Pullen   Developing Technologies Appropriate technology development 01/01/09
30/06/15
Prof Abdulnaser Sayma   FP7 Clean Coal Tech. H2-IGCC – Low emissions gas turbine technology for hydrogen rich syngas 01/01/13
31/10/13
Prof Keith Pullen   TSB Fuel cell air management system 01/02/10
30/03/12

Industry-funded

PICo-IFunder Project TitleStart/End
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic   HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Howden Chair in Engineering Design and Compressor Technology 01/06/16
31/06/17
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/16
31/12/16
Prof Nikola Stosic   INCDT COMOTI Bucharest Design of high pressure compressor 05/09/16
31/12/16
Prof Keith Pullen   AVL Powertrain UK Ltd Electric supercharging 01/09/15
31/08/16
Prof Manolis Gavaises   Delphi Diesel System and Luxemburg NRC Support for MC Fellowship of Dr Yan Meslem 01/09/14
31/08/16
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic   HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Howden Chair in Engineering Design and Compressor Technology 01/06/15
31/05/16
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/15
31/12/15
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Design 2 compressors for Frick India 01/01/15
31/12/15
Prof Nikola Stosic   Knorr-Bremse, France Performance calculation of a small screw compresor 01/01/15
31/12/15
Prof Nikola Stosic   DV Systems, Ontario, Canada Licence Disco/Scorpath 01/01/13
31/12/15
Dr Russel Lockett   SHELL INTL LTD Fundamentals of Cavitation Inception in Immersed Fuel Jets 01/09/09
31/12/15
Dr Russel Lockett   SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS The Effect of of Hydrodynamic Cavitation on Diesel 01/11/13
30/09/15
Prof Keith Pullen   AVL Powertrain UK Ltd eSC electric Supercharging 01/09/14
31/08/15
Prof Kovacevic   HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Howden Chair in Engineering Design and Compressor Technology 01/06/14
31/05/15
Prof John Carlton   WARTSILA NETHERLANDS BV Singing propellers: Understanding the Mechanisms and the Development of Design Guidance 01/01/12
31/01/15
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Design 2 compressors for CMP USA 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Nikola Stosic   Holland Knopps, The Netherlands Study of ammonia-water compressor and expander 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic Prof Nikola Stosic Dunham-Bush, UK Design of the family of refrigeration compressors 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Nikola Stosic   Bryton Energy Study in subatmospheric Brayton cycle plant 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Design 2 compressors for Frick India 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/14
31/12/14
Prof Jamhsid Nouri   BP International Ltd EPSRC CASE Studentship - Ioannis Vasilakos 01/10/10
30/04/14
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic Dr Ashvin Dhunput HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Measurements of Howden M127 Prototype compressor 01/05/12
31/03/14
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic Dr Ashvin Dhunput HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Measurements of Howden M127 prototype compressor variants 5.2-.4 03/02/14
31/03/14
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic   DENSO CORPORATION Consultancy - Analysis of fuel screw pump 15/10/13
31/03/14
Prof Manolis Gavaises   BP International Ltd Modelling Diesel Fuel and Cavitation in Injectors 01/04/13
31/01/14
Prof Keith Pullen   Dynamic Boosting Systems Investigation of Turboclaw operation at higher Reynolds number 01/02/11
31/01/14
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/13
31/12/13
Prof Nikola Stosic   Holroyd Precision Design of 5 screw compressors for Wuxi China 01/01/13
31/12/13
Prof Nikola Stosic   Mainstream, Rockledge, USA Software licence, Compressor Course 01/01/13
31/12/13
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic   HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Integration of Maketing and R&D in New Product Development 01/01/09
31/05/13
Prof Manolis Gavaises   AFTON CHEMICAL Characterisation of Fuel injection Phenomena using standard diesel fuel and diesel enriched with additives 01/09/12
30/06/13
Prof Manolis Gavaises   Lubrizol Ltd UK Engine power gaining investigation 01/10/12
30/05/13
Prof Nikola Stosic   T.M.C. S.p.a Termomeccanica Compressori Software Licence - Disoc Scorpath 01/04/11
28/02/13
Prof Ahmed Kovacevic Dr Nusa Fain HOWDEN COMPRESSORS LTD Integration of Maketing and R&D in New Product Development 01/03/11
28/02/13
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/12
31/12/12
Prof Nikola Stosic   MAhle, UK Study for use screw machines as methyl alcohol expanders 01/01/12
31/12/12
Prof Nikola Stosic   Airplus, Korea Consultation in water screw compressors 01/01/12
31/12/12
Prof Manolis Gavaises   Delphi Diesel Systems UK The Delphi Chair 01/06/09
31/12/12
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Full Mechanical Design of 7 Compressors 20/09/10
31/01/12
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/11
31/12/11
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Design 2 compressors for Frick India 01/01/11
31/12/11
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/10
31/12/10
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Elthom, Cyprus 01/01/10
31/12/10
Prof Nikola Stosic   Airplus, Korea Consultation in dry screw compressors 01/01/10
31/12/10
Dr Russel Lockett   SHELL INTL LTD The Characterisation of Diesel Cavitation using Time Resolved Imaging - top up 01/10/09
31/12/10
Prof Nikola Stosic   HOLROYD PRECISION LTD Support Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology 01/01/09
31/12/09
Prof Nikola Stosic   INCDT COMOTI Bucharest Design of the first high pressure compressor 05/09/09
31/12/09
Prof Nikola Stosic   Bitzer, Germany Scorpath/Disco licence 01/01/09
31/12/09
Prof Nikola Stosic   Ansto, Australia Compressor failure study 01/01/09
31/12/09

News and Events

Latest News

https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2019/august/dr-martin-white-awarded-prestigious-royal-academy-of-engineering-research-fellowship


https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2020/july/dr-martin-white-and-professor-naser-sayma-win-imeches-2019-geoffrey-soar-award


Upcoming Events

Previous Seminars and Events

16-17th September 2020: NextMGT First Workshop

The first workshop for the NextMGT project was hosted by City via Zoom for the 15 Early Stage Researchers on 16 and 17 September 2020. The two-day event included several talks, social activities, and sessions by experts in the field. The ESRs got an overview of the project, were introduced to nicro gas turbines, and received valuable information on integral transferable skills through sessions delivered by internal City staff and external speakers from other institutions.

10th September 2020: TFRC Poster Competition

Given that many PhD students within the Thermo-Fluids Research Centre have missed opportunities to attend conferences and events this year due to the current Coronavirus situation, an online poster competition for all was held during the week 7-11th September 2020 in the aim  of discussig their research with other members of the centre.During the event, the posters were made available online where a voting system was set up. 12 posters were presented, with the winner getting a prize of £150 and the two highly commended posters receiving a prize of £75 each. An online social event followed the prize-giving ceremony.

Find all poster entries here.

14-15th December 2017: 1st European Micro Gas Turbine Forum (EMGTF)

The first European Micro Gas Turbine Forum (EMGTF) was held at City, University of London on the 14th and 15th of December 2017. The meeting was co-organised by City, University of London and University of Seville.

The European Micro Gas Turbine Forum is an initiative launched to foster the commercial deployment of micro gas turbines by setting the scenario where all stakeholders have a platform to share knowledge and experience, collaborate and discuss a roadmap to move the technology forward. The main objective is thus to make fast progress that would otherwise not be possible under business as usual scenario.

9-10th September 2017: Short course on CFD in rotary positive displacement machines

Short course on CFD in rotary positive displacement machines

29th June 2017: Short course on cavitation in fuel systems and medical ultrasound

Short course on cavitation in fuel systems and medical ultrasound

27-28th June 2017: The 5th Cavitation Workshop