ISUAAAT 2006

Turbomachines are in wide use in present-day power engineering and industry owing to variety of their use possibilities. Although colossal experience is gained in development and manufacture of all kinds of turbomachines, the creation of new objects which satisfy recent requirements for their service conditions is to a large measure restrained by shortage of knowledge of working part gas dynamics at present stable tendency to structural components stress loading increase and growth of the importance of unsteadiness (periodicity) of energy exchange between blades and flow.

In September 1976, the first International Symposium on Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity of Turbomachines was organized as a result of the initiative of Robert Legendre in Paris (France), and it was supported by most of technically advanced countries. Then the Symposiums were held in 1980 (Lausanne, Switzerland), 1984 (Cambridge, Great Britain), 1987 (Aachen, Germany), 1989 (Beijing, Chine), 1991 (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA), 1994 (Fukuoka, Japan), 1997 (Stockholm, Sweden), 2000 (Lyon, France), 2003 (Durham, North Carolina, USA). The themes of the Symposium choose the problems concerning with the processes in working parts of compressors and turbines where a wide range of flow velocities is realized, and the sources of structural elements vibration excitation, noise generation, and hydrodynamic losses associated with the periodicity of the flow and its interaction with elastic blades are situated.

Real merit of Symposiums is the tradition of participation of large quantity of researches from firms which design and manufacture turbomachines. Symposium program involves as a rule about 60 papers presenting various research schools and the results characterized by clear applied directivity.

According to the decision of the International Scientific Committee of the Symposium on unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, and aeroelasticity of turbomachines (ISUAAAT), Central Institute of Aviation Motors (CIAM) invites you to participate in ISUAAAT-2006, which will be held 4 – 8 September 2006 in Moscow, Russia.

CIAM was established in 1930 and at the present time is one of the largest research centers in Russia in the field of gas turbine engines and power plants. CIAM has a tradition of carrying out complex scientific and technology programs from fundamental physical problems to design and creation of new technologies. The Institute has a unique set of experimental facilities and test rigs, it actively collaborates with companies from Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, China, India, and Korea.

CIAM has a long experience of research on unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics and aeroelastcity of turbomachines. For many years the Institute has been a leader and the major initiator of organizing in Russia recurrent scientific and technical conferences on the problems in the aforementioned field.