Department of ROPULSION ENGINEERING

The related researches are oriented to aircraft, spacecraft, and the engine structure to study the structure’s capabilities of load sustaining and environment tolerating and modern design theory & method to improve the structure performance and maintainability, etc. The main research areas are: advanced aviation material preparation and performance (ceramic matrix composite, honeycomb material, 3D printing, etc.), composite material mechanics, structural multidisciplinary optimization design, structural dynamics response, structural design and failure behavior under complicated environment (high temperature, high pressure, trim impact etc.), structure safety and reliability evaluation, damage tolerance design, lifetime determination and extension, structural rigidity etc.

The major researches oriented to the demands of advanced powerplant design and performance elevation involve: no-flame combustion technology, detonation combustion technology, high-precision combustion numerical simulation (combustion model, atomizing model, Nox generated model etc.), atomization mechanism and experimental study.

Implementing design and research of large-middle fluid experimental platform, main researches include: component optimization for aerocraft, surface ship (aircraft carrier) and engine; aeroengine interior flow resistance reduction, separate control and aerodynamics optimization for diffuser & combustor; Raman scattering and hydroxyl tracer measuring technologies; TDLAT multidimensional–component temperature measuring technologies.

Taking advantage of the department’s ample research bases of minor engine schematic design, composite material and advanced manufacturing technologies, focuses on design and manufacturing fiber reinforced ceramic composite minor aero-powerplant, the main researches include: minor engine design, composite material manufacturing & performance inspection for critical components, special manufacturing technologies, engine blade precision casting, gas thermal fluid-solid coupling heat transfer research.

 Exchange the latest developments in the field of ramjets; focus on the new future of air and space; discuss its stamping and combined cycle propulsion technologies.
Venue:  Science and Arts Center, Xiamen University 

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