A four-day scientific symposium on advances in thermoacoustic oscillations gas turbine and rocket combustors took place at TUM’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Garching on May 30th – June 1st 2016. Thermodynamics Professor Thomas Sattelmayer initiated and hosted the event together with IAS’s Rudolf Diesel Fellow from GE Power Bruno Schuermans.
The general framework consisted of scientific paper sessions on topics related to thermoacoustics in Gas Turbines and Rocket Engines such as physical mechanisms, analysis approaches, system optimization and many more. Special emphasis was placed on including both, industrial as well academic perspectives in the session contents. The most fundamental goal of the symposium was to cross connect the research communities of gas turbine and rocket engines thermoacoustics as well as academic institutions and industrial companies in order to identify overlapping research areas, and to initiate collaborations. A further feature of the symposium emerged by nine invited experts from the respective fields, who stemmed – in full agreement with the symposium’s theme – either industry or academia. These expert speakers gave keynote talks presenting their views on current states and future paths of research activities on thermoacoustics instabilities.
The symposium’s participation exceeded all anticipations. In total, 54 papers were submitted and were presented within 22 session. The papers’ topics were evenly distributed between gas turbine and rocket engine emphases as well as origin within industry and academia. Moreover, the symposium reflected an impressive internationality where over 100 participants and authors travelled to Munich from all over the world including countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Iran, South Korea, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, China and Italy.
Besides the scientific talks, a familiar atmosphere was created in which technical discussion, networking and acquainting with fellow researchers, planning of new research projects and collaborations were fostered. The participants gave positive feedback, and encouraged the Institute of Thermodynamics to cast the symposium into a recurring event…