ELUBSYS

With 14,000 turbines in operation and 2,200 customers in 150 countries, Turbomeca provides a world-wide quality service, with its 14 sites, 2 subsidiaries, 25 TurboSupport centers (maintenance), 24 repair centers (repair and overhaul) and its 90 technical field representatives.

Turbomeca's industrial and commercial sphere of activity is represented by its 14 sites, all of which have industrial and repair facilities at their disposal, found throughout France and found in Great-Britain, the USA, Australia, Brazil, Africa, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Pacific Asia and South America. The two subsidiaries (Microturbo, CGTM) are based in France. Turbomeca makes a point of being open to the whole world and is thus making great progress.

Industria de Turbo Propulsores S.A. (ITP) was established in 1989. Their current shareholders are Rolls-Royce (47%) and SENER (53%). The business activity of ITP ranges from overhaul and assembly of existing and new aero-engine propulsion systems, to the research, design, development and manufacture of gas turbine elements for the civil and military aeronautics industries, as well as for industrial gas turbine applications (power generation, marine propulsion, etc.) The company has two industrial sites. The first one in Ajalvir (Madrid), where assembly and overhaul work is carried out, and the second one, in Zamudio (Vizcaya), where gas turbine components are manufactured. Design, engineering and R&D activities are performed in Zamudio as well as in San Fernando (Madrid) where ITP posses dedicated engineering facilities.

ITP is involved in joint ventures with main engine manufactures in the design, manufacture and maintenance of aero, military and industrial engines. Through partnership with RR, ITP is responsible for the Low Pressure Turbine (LPT) and the Rear Bearing Support for the Trent engine family (Trent 500, Trent 900, Trent 1000). ITP is also responsible for the LPT module for the BR715 as a partner of RRD. Regarding military applications, ITP is involved in EJ200 engine with a participation of 18%, in TP400 turboprop engine with a participation of 20,6% and in the MTR390 for the Eurocopter with a participation of 25%. ITP has also participation in the industrial field being a partner with GE for the LM2500 and LMS100 engines.

R&D focus: Low Pressure Turbine Modules, Exhaust Systems (Nozzle & Diffusers) and Transmissions and Structures (Tail Bearing Housing & Bearing Chambers). ITP policy is to increase their competitiveness through the development of more innovative technological products.

WSK "PZL-Rzeszów" S.A. is a company with 70 years tradition in aviation and machine building industries. WSK "PZL-Rzeszów" S.A. has about 3800 employees.

Operation consists of following main divisions:

• Aviation Business Unit - production program includes aviation engines, helicopter gearboxes and aviation components. Aviation components include: gas generators, exhausts, heat sheets, gears, shafts, carries, casings, housings, turbine and compressor blades, guide vanes, tubes and other aviation components.
• Service Business Unit - overhaul of engines assemblies and parts
• Casting Business Unit - investment castings of rotor and blades
• Tooling Business Unit - tooling and special cutting tools.

Main customers: Pratt and Whitney Canada, Pratt and Whitney U.S., GEAE,
Sales: more than €200M, Export - 85%

Core Skills of WSK are:
Design, manufacture and development of aviation engines, helicopter gearboxes, components, castings, as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul of power plant both commercial and military applications.

Main products of WSK are: parts and components of aviation engines and overhaul of jet engines SO-3, turboprop engines: PZL-10S, turboshaft engines: GTD-350 and modifications: GTD-350W, GTD-350 W2 and PZL-10W.

Created in 1987, ARTTIC is a European provider of management services for international collaborative R&D projects. The ARTTIC group comprises several companies based in France, Belgium, Germany, UK and Israel. ARTTIC's total staff adds up to about 50 persons, all specialised in the provision of advice and practical assistance in all aspects of international R&D collaborations and projects. Services include helping clients to establish project feasibility; finding international partners; establishing consortia; managing the proposal development activities; helping negotiate contracts; taking charge of all management aspects of live projects and helping to disseminate and exploit successful project results.

Experience in the management of large collaborative R&D projects

ARTTIC is currently participating in several FP6 and FP7 integrated projects, networks of excellence and STREPs. In the fields of Transport, ARTTIC is involved in five large aeronautics Integrated Projects in FP6: VIVACE (aircraft design process), MOET (aircraft electrical design), NACRE (new aircraft architectures), VITAL and NEWAC (new clean and noiseless engine technologies), and three in FP7: DREAM (new engine architectures), MAAXIMUS (composite) and SCARLETT (electrical systems). ARTTIC is also involved in two FP7 small /medium size projects (TAUPE and TECC-AE).

ARTTIC contribution and role to ELUBSYS

ARTTIC will be involved in the ELUBSYS project from its Brussels offices. ARTTIC will be in charge of the project office (WP0). ARTTIC will provide methods and tools to support the collaboration within the consortium and to manage the project. This includes:

• Provision of web base collaborative tools: a secured web platform based on IBM Quickplace technology and a web conference and collaborative work environment (SameTime) integrated with the collaborative platform.
• Quality and management plans to facilitate the collaboration and a proper handling of all contractual obligations covering decision process, reporting, financial management, deliverable development and approval process, IPR management, technical review preparation, dissemination.
• A series of reporting tools based essentially on performance indicators (deliverable, milestones and intermediary results follow-up graphs, resources (person month and budget), planning, action lists, risk register, recovery plans, technical indicators related to the project objectives).

ARTTIC will then support the consortium in the daily management and administrative tasks to ensure the collaboration is working, the project is properly monitored and decisions and actions are prepared and taken according to the project progress. An important aspect of the role of ARTTIC is also to simplify as much as possible the work of the researchers and to develop a collaborative spirit inside the consortium.

The ARTTIC team will be made of an experienced project manager who will be in charge of implementing the project management plans, following the decisions and actions decided by the Steering Committee and Technical Management Board and more generally to identify and bring solutions to any difficulties met. A project administrator will complete the team to provide the support necessary for all administrative tasks (reporting, organisation of meetings, etc.). The team will then be supported whenever necessary by additional ARTTIC specialists: senior consultant for solving complex partnerships problems and for quality assurance, web master for the collaborative platform, etc.

CENAERO is an applied research centre with focus on the development of advanced multidisciplinary simulation technologies for Aeronautics. It is a private non-profit organization founded in 2002 to support innovation for the aerospace companies of the Walloon region. It is mainly funded by the Walloon Region and structural funds ERDF and ESF of the European Union.

CENAERO is a growing team of 42 highly skilled engineers and scientists specialized in numerical methods, material and process modelling, computational fluid dynamics, physics and applied mathematics. Its expertise expands further thanks to a close partnership with the major Walloon aerospace companies (Techspace Aero, SONACA, SABCA, Alcatel Etca), academic institutions (Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Liège) and the von Karman Institute for fluid dynamics. CENAERO research activities are organized according to four strategic axes: 1. Virtual manufacturing; 2. Multiscale material modelling; 3. CFD-based multiphysics; 4. Numerical methods and optimization.

CENAERO is currently involved in 15 running FP6 projects as partner (VIVACE, PROHIPP, VIF-CA, VITAL, FAR-Wake, SYNCOMECS, LAPCAT, MUSCA, VERDI, NEWAC, CESAR, NICE-TRIP, TATMO, ADIGMA and DATAFORM) and is the coordinator of the DEEPWELD and the ADVICE projects.

CENAERO is equipped with supercomputing facilities including a Linux cluster with 434 processors (264 Opteron cores and 170 Xeon processors), 528 GB of memory, 16 TB of disk space and Myrinet interconnect as well as a Silicon Graphics Altix 3700 with 28 Itanium2 shared memory and 56 GB of shared memory.

Tekniker was legally incorporated in 1981 as a non-profit making Foundation based on a statutory commitment, whose mission is to contribute to increase the innovation capability of the industrial sector to improve its competitiveness through the generation and application of technology and knowledge. Tekniker specialises in manufacturing technologies, i.e. all areas concerned with products, processes, production machinery, handling (capital goods) and all-round management of product life-cycles. Automotive parts, machine tools, mechanical capital goods, aerospace, chemical & petroleum products and industrial and consumer electronics are the most relevant sectors served by Tekniker. All technological objectives are addressed with a staff of 220 people, being the actual annual turnover of around 9MEuros. Tekniker has been involved in many research programmes National, European and International.

The Manufacturing processes Department of Tekniker is devoted, in one of its main research areas, to the tribology and lubricants research. 18 years of experience in characterising oils and greases and in making research on new developments, chemical properties of lubricants, new analytical methods, tribological systems, condition monitoring, sensor design and development, expert systems, predictive maintenance through the analysis of oil makes Tekniker a reference in research in Europe leading quite a big number of research projects and being members of different European and International Groups (WEARCHECK, ELGI, ICFG, COST TRIBOLOGY,…).

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is the French speaking university of Brussels. It is a complete university offering the full scope of educational degrees. One of its faculties is the Faculty of Applied Sciences where a complete programme with 3 years of Bachelor and 2 years of Master is offered to the students, among with a lot of Erasmus students. In the Master, a specialisation in Aeronautics is available for the students. This programme is now organised in cooperation with the Flemish University of Brussels (VUB), the KU Leuven and the Royal Military Academy of Belgium. The Service of Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Propulsion is one of the members of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the largest contributor to this specialisation in Aeronautics, with 4 Professors and about 10 assistants/researchers busy with their PhD or post-doc activities. The service has also very close links with the von Karman Institute.

For the ELUBSYS project, ULB will involve close collaborators from its academy that originates from sister institutions in Mons and Liege.

Frederick Institute of Technology (FIT) is dedicated to the provision of high quality research in many fields of Science and Technology. The staff (about 220) is comprised of highly qualified and experienced Ph.D. personnel. The Institute assures high standards by carrying-out a wide spectrum of quality applied research programs recognized at international level.

The Mechanical Engineering Department at FIT is one of the very few in Cyprus with infrastructure and strong activities related to applied research in the areas of Energy, Materials, Manufacturing Technology, Technology Management and other technology-related fields. More than 85 research projects were funded during the last 10 years (National and EU contribution).

The Mechanical Engineering Design Group (MEDG) is a multi-disciplinary research group and it's personnel currently consists of one professor, one associate professor, one assistant professor, one Lecturer, two postdoctoral researchers and one administrative assistant. Two of its members have years of experience in aerospace research projects, because they have worked in the past as group leaders in the R&D departments of aerospace industries. The members of the ME Laboratory are experienced in the use of modern CAD/CAE tools (ANSYS, Nastran, SolidWorks, Matlab etc.) and are specialized in the development of algorithms and their application in related computational tools.

The work of the MEDG has been aimed at the development of state-of-the-art analytical methods and computational tools in areas such as finite elements, boundary elements, mesh grid generation, solver techniques, parameter identification and hybrid optimization techniques with various applications in machine design.

The MEDG also has experience in CFD-multiphase modelling using the ANSYS CFX software. ANSYS CFX software is used by many researchers successfully for simulating multiphase flows. Moreover, previous work established the suitability of ANSYS CFX, for computation of two-phase air/dispersed oil flow and oil droplet motion within a high-speed rotating system typical of bearing chambers and of multiphase flow in horizontal pipes. This work will provide the basis for future developments.

The laboratory develops experiments and models for understanding and predicting friction, wear and damage processes and also the behaviour of mechanical parts & systems under complex, static and dynamic solicitations.

The LaMCoS plays an important role in sustainable development through its work on the lightening of the structures, the prevention of the risks of failures, the control of wear, the use of the non-polluting lubricants, the tribological sources of noise…

The laboratory is organised in four groups:

• Mechanics of Solids & of Damage (MSE)
• Mechanical Systems and Contacts (SMC)
• Tribology & Interfaces Mechanics (TMI)
• Dynamics & Control of Structures (DCS)

The research interests of the 'Mechanical Systems and Contacts' team concern the functional analysis of lubricated contacts and the interactions between contacts and mechanical systems.

Research topics
Static and dynamic couplings between contacts and their mechanical environment are investigated taking account of the demands made by the lubrication process, surface roughness and the nature and pollution of the lubricant. Theoretical and numerical approaches are compared with the results from several original test-rigs, i.e. high performance dual-disc machines, instrumented geared transmissions, power loss measurement systems, etc. The objectives are the prediction and the analysis of failures as well as the development of technological solutions for lubricated mechanisms. The main areas of application are geared transmissions, rolling element bearings, elements of combustion engines and journal bearings.

The Mechanical Systems and Contacts team collaborates and publishes with other research groups in France and abroad: the Mechanical Engineering Department of ECAM-Lyon, the LTDS of Ecole Centrale de Lyon, the LMS of Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, the Tribology group of Imperial College, London, etc.

The group is the academic arm of TRANSMECA, the joint CETIM, CNRS and INSA-Lyon gearing systems laboratory.

The Laboratory of Contact Mechanics and Structures (LaMCoS) is a Joint Research Unit (JRU n°5259) between INSA of Lyon and CNRS

The competences at Trefle are as follows:

• Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, multiphase flows, turbulence, porous media, control and processes, numerical methods, PIV, LDV and thermography
• Fundamental researches of Computational Fluid and Thermal Dynamics team (MFEN)
• Modelling of surface tension, multi-cale modelling of multiphase flows (molecular dynamics, Boltzman and Monte Carlo models, Navier-Stokes, Shallow-Water)
• Multiphase flows and turbulence LES models
• Original and efficient numerical methods for incompressible multiphase flows
• 256 processor Opteron super-computer with 512 Go RAM memory
• Applications of Computational Fluid and Thermal Dynamics team (MFEN)
• Material and industrial processes (multiphase flows in plasma or metal coating, multiphase flows in motor systems, multiphase flows in rotating environments, ...)
• Energy (nuclear engineering, thermal exchanges in buildings, ...), environment (flow in natural cavities, coastal applications, pollution)

Trefle collaborates with a large set of Partners : SNECMA, CEA, EDF, TOTAL, MITTAL-ARCELOR, TURBOMECA, SOGREAH, VAREL ...

Universität Karlsruhe (TH) - UNIKARL

www.its.uni-karlsruhe.de

The Universität Karlsruhe (TH) is not only the oldest technical university in Germany but also ranked one of the top universities in the German excellence initiative. There are 18,000 undergraduate students and 1400 scientific personnel employed at 11 departments. The Institut fuer Thermische Stroemungsmaschinen (ITS) is one of the major chairs within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universität Karlsruhe. Research activities at the ITS are conducted by one full professor (director), three senior engineers (heads of research departments), 30 research assistants and 40 master students. Gas turbine related research at the ITS is mainly concentrated on the hot gas section and the neighbouring parts of gas turbines. Particular emphasis is given on the following areas:

• Combustion chambers
• High and low pressure turbines
• Secondary air system and oil system
• Internal components including disks, seals and bearings

Design and cooling problems of highly loaded components ranging from turbine blades and airfoils, combustion chamber walls to turbine disks or labyrinth seals are important topics in the research activities since many years. The ITS was able to accumulate more than 25 years of experience and a highly recognized expertise in these fields. The experimental and numerical analysis of complex combustion chamber flows, including reacting flows, combustion instabilities, liquid fuel atomization and pollutant formation plays an important role in the ITS research activities. Another major field are two-phase flow phenomena ranging from fuel preparation in gas turbines and IC- engines to lubrication oil in high performance aero engines, leading to a well-established background in experimental and theoretical analysis of two phase flows. The investigation of flow and heat transfer in the internal air/oil system including labyrinth seals, pre-swirl systems, cavity flows and bearing chamber flows requires suitable test rigs and methods for data acquisition in rotating environments.

Various measurement techniques including 2D and 3D LDV and Phase-Doppler-instruments, 3D PIV for single and two phase flows, laser diffraction instruments, multi-channel hot wire systems, IR cameras, high speed visualization instruments, multi-species gas analysis, standard pneumatic probes and a variety of surface temperature and heat flux probes are available and applied in high pressure and high temperature test rigs as well as in rotating rigs.

For many years the ITS is or was involved in numerous national and international research projects, including e.g. EC funded projects of the 5th frame-work programme such as ATOS, CFD4C, ICAS-GT II, SiA, Preccinsta, Muscles, DWDIE and of the 6th frame-work programme TATEF II, AITEB II, TLC, AERONET III, MAGPI and many more.

University of Nottingham

www.nottingham.ac.uk

The University of Nottingham Technology Centre (UTC) in Gas Turbine Transmission Systems is a multi-disciplinary research group that combines the expertise of academics from Mechanical Engineering, Mathematical Sciences and Chemical Engineering. Formed in 1997, the UTC has significant experience in the application of experimental, computational and numerical approaches to transmissions-related multiphase flows. The group has excellent laboratory facilities together with dedicated experimental officer and technician support. In addition, the University has recently made a significant investment in computing power, now owning the 2nd largest cluster in Europe, which will be utilised for this work. The University of Nottingham has collaborated successfully with a number of the ELUBSYS partners in previous programmes. In particular, in INTRANS, Computational Fluid Dynamics and the non-intrusive optical technique PIV were used to improve the design of air/oil separators (breathers) and in ATOS models for thin film flow and droplet film interaction were successfully linked to conventional CFD to create a design tool applicable to aeroengine bearing chambers.

University of Sheffield

www.sheffield.ac.uk

The University of Sheffield is one of the UK's leading research and teaching institutions, with an international reputation for academic excellence. Its mission is to maintain the highest standards of scholarship as a research-led university, whose staff work at the frontiers of academic enquiry and educate students in a research environment. In recent years, notable expansion has taken place in the Engineering Faculty. Currently the faculty is home to three Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres, in material damping, design technology and controls.

The University was also chosen by the Boeing Company to be home to their Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) dedicated to the manufacturing needs of the aerospace industry. The University has an exemplary reputation in the field of combustion and fuel technology. This has been strengthened in the recent years with the appointment of 4 new professorial posts in aviation related areas. Two of these posts have been in the area of thermofluid dynamics and cover gas turbine combustion, fuels and lubricants and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Université de Mons (UMons) - Laboratoire de Physique des Surfaces et Interfaces (LPSI)

www.umons.ac.be

The Laboratory of Surface and Interface Physics (LPSI) is a multidisciplinary team within the University of Mons and is located in the building of the "Pôle d'Excellence Materia Nova".

We specialize in the study of interfaces and solid surfaces. Functional characteristics of materials are to a large degree determined by the properties of their surfaces and the interactions of these surfaces with surrounding media. As a result, the performance of a material in terms of its function in coating, wetting, adsorption, friction and wear, optics, etc. can be manipulated by introducing surface layers of molecular thickness. Our aim is to understand how the interfacial characteristics of materials affect their function and performance, statically and dynamically, and hence determine their technological and economic value. Armed with a growing arsenal of surface chemical and structural facts, obtained from experiments, theory, and computer modelling, all techniques available within the LPSI, we are able to explore myriad ways of controlling the complex behaviour and properties of real materials, like the lotus leaf, to design and create surfaces on demand. The centre is focussed along four complementary axes:

• Surface treatments - in particular for biotechnology and nanotechnology
• Characterization of solid and liquid interfaces
• Molecular modelling
• Image processing and analysis