Division of Fluid-Flow Machinery conducts lectures lectures, seminars, laboratories and design projects regarding: steam and gas turbines,marine steam and gas turbines, turbine design, turbomachinery aerodynamics, fluid flow mechanics, turbine power plants, elements of thermodynamics, compressors, pumps, piston engines, steam boilers, unconventional sources of energy, nuclear turbines.
The leading research topics currently carried out in the Division:
Turbomachinery design, optimisation of the main design parameters of turbines, including CFD and artificial intelligence methods
Fluid mechanics, flow calculation, flows of bio-fluids
Optimisation of turbine power plant cycles
Wind energy and wind turbine design
Water turbine, design and operation
Turbine dynamics, self-excited vibrations of rotor systems, turbine seals
Active control of flow and mechanical vibrations
Renewable sources of energy, distributed energy
Design of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) systems
Design of mikroturbines and micro power plants (steam, gas and ORC)
Selected problems of human body flows, including non-newtonian fluids
