Awards ProgramASME Turbo Expo

ASME International Gas Turbine Institute

Düsseldorf, Germany

June 16, 2014

The Awards2014 ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award

2012 ASME Gas Turbine Award

2012 John P. Davis Award

2014 Aircraft Engine Technology Award

2014 Industrial Gas Turbine Technology Award

2014 Dilip R. Ballal Award

The Awards

Award CommitteesHonors & Awards Committee

Ron Bunker, Chair

Aircraft Engine Technology Award CommitteeAndrew Nix, Chair

Industrial Gas Turbine Technology Award Committee

Daniel Barpal, Chair

Closing CeremonyOutgoing ASME IGTI Board Members, Outstanding Service Awards, Stu-

dent Poster Session Winners, Outgoing Committee Chairs and Young

Engineer Travel Award Recipients will be recognized during the Expo-

sition Closing Ceremony on Thursday, June 19.

The Awards

The Awards

Best Paper Award Winners will be recognized at the appropriate Committee Meeting.

2014 ASME R. Tom Sawyer AwardThe Awards

Awarded to an individual who has made important contributions to advance the purpose of the gas turbine industry and the ASME International Gas Turbine

Institute over a substantial period of time. The contribution may be in any area of Institute activity, but must be marked by sustained forthright efforts.

Reza Abhari is Head of the Laboratory for Energy Conversion at ETH Zurich. With 75 students and staff, current research at LEC include; re-newable energy technology and economics, fossil fuel power generation, and laser produced plasma. He has authored over 200 scientific articles and journal publications. He has been on a number of scientific editorial boards, including Journal of Power and Energy. Prof. Abhari has been: Del-egate of the Rektor, Dean/Head of Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, and Head of Institute for Energy Technologies at ETHZ. In his earlier career, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor at the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. He also worked in the aerospace industry in the US, focusing on research and development and its manage-ment. He has given a number of major keynote speeches in the US, Europe and Asia on topics related to energy supply and conversion, technology management, and innovation management. As a board member, founder and strategic advisor, he has also been involved in the growth of a number of enterprises in the US and Europe, covering the sectors of energy, aero-space, and semiconductor industries. He is currently a member of Super-visory Board of PNE Wind AG with headquarters in Germany.

2012 ASME Gas Turbine AwardThe Awards

The Gas Turbine Award was established in 1963 to be given in recognitionof an outstanding contribution to the literature of noncombustion gas turbines

thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants.

RECEIVING THE 2012 GAS TURBINE AWARD FOR THEIR PAPER:

“Origins and Structure of Spike-Type Rotating Stall.”

Dr. Ivor Day received his PhD degree from Cambridge University in 1976. After working in industry for eleven years, he returned to the Whittle Lab as a Senior Research Fellow funded by Rolls-Royce. Apart from the supervision of PhD students, his work is predominantly experimental, concentrating on problems which are not yet amenable to CFD analysis. His work has covered such subjects as stall and surge in axial compressors, water ingestion and un-steady combustion. Ivor has many publications, awards and patents and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechani-cal Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engi-neering.

Dr. Graham Pullan is currently an MHI Senior Lecturer in Turbomachinery at the University of Cambridge Whittle Laboratory. He received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2001, writing his dis-sertation on the design of low aspect ratio turbine blades, supervised by Professor John Denton. Dr. Pullan’s research interests are the aerodynamic design of turbomachinery and the development of computational tools, particularly accelerated CFD, required to enhance the design process.

Dr. Anna Young is the Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow at the Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in June 2012, on axial compres-sor stall, supervised by Ivor Day. Her current research has two themes; the effect of tip-clearance on compressor per-formance, and the expansion of the tidal power generation research group at the Whittle Laboratory. She has received two Turbomachinery Committee Best Paper Awards as well as the Rolls-Royce Howse and Ruffles Award for Best Doc-

Dr. Edward M. Greitzer is the H. N. Slater Profes-sor at MIT, where he has served as Director of MIT’s Gas Turbine Laboratory and Deputy Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His A. B., S. M. and Ph.D. degrees are from Harvard University. Prior to joining MIT he was with the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Tech-nologies Corporation and, more recently, he was Director, Aeromechanical, Chemical, and Fluid Systems at United Technologies Research Center. As a former Overseas Fel-low at Cambridge University, he has helped foster the long-standing collaboration between Cambridge and MIT. His research interests include gas turbines, turbomachinery, aircraft-propulsion system integration, active control of fluid systems, vortex flows, and industry-university collabo-ration.

Dr. Spakovszky is Professor of Aeronautics and As-tronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the Gas Turbine Laboratory. He obtained his Dipl. Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Dr. Spakovszky’s principal fields of interest include in-ternal flows in turbomachinery, compressor aerodynamics and stability, dynamic system modeling of aircraft gas tur-bine engines, micro-scale gas bearing dynamics, and aero-acoustics. He currently directs analytical and experimental research in these areas and teaches graduate and under-graduate courses in thermodynamics, propulsion and fluid mechanics, and aero-acoustics.

2012 ASME Gas Turbine AwardThe Awards

The Gas Turbine Award was established in 1963 to be given in recognitionof an outstanding contribution to the literature of noncombustion gas turbines

thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants.

RECEIVING THE 2012 GAS TURBINE AWARD FOR THEIR PAPER:

“Origins and Structure of Spike-Type Rotating Stall.”

2012 John P. Davis AwardThe Awards

RECEIVING THE 2012 John P. Davis AWARD FOR THEIR PAPER:“Application of an Industrial Sensor Coating System on a Rolls-Royce

Jet Engine for Temperature Detection ”Dr Jörg P. Feist is responsible for general management and R&D at Sensor Coating Systems Ltd (SCS) and at Southside Ther-mal Sciences. Jörg has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Impe-rial College London and a first degree in Physics from the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. In 2002, The Wall Street Journal awarded Jörg’s company, STS, the European Innovations Award. Under Jörg’s leadership the UK co-funded project ‘SeCSy,’ was nominated for the ‘UK Technology and Innovation Award’ in 2011 and SCS for the ACES European Start-Up of the Year Award in 2013. Last year his company received the British Engineering Excellence Award in the category, New Material Application 2013. Jörg is a regular visitor, author and presenter at the ASME Turbo Expo conferences and together with his co-authors, he was awarded two Best Paper Awards in 2008 and 2012.

Pierre Sollazzo is a development engineer at Sensor Coat-ing Systems (SCS) and Southside Thermal Science (SCS). Pierre has a masters in Physics, specialised in instrumentation from INSA Tou-louse in France and a HND equivalent in electronics and industrial networking. His career started in Derby as a R&D consultant for sev-eral years mainly in the jet engine industry and worked in projects for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and fuel cells engine industries. In 2009, Pierre joined STS where he developed scientific instruments used in phosphor thermometry. Pierre’s main skills are solid state physics, electronics and programming. Additionally, he has a background in mechanics, IT and optics.

Bernard Charnley has extensive experience of rotating ma-chinery spanning over 25 years. His work initially involved industrial experience with steam turbines, pumps and diesels as well as various aircraft engines. He has worked with industrial partners such as Al-stom, Rolls Royce, Qinetiq, Samsung, Western Aerospace, Flakt Wood and Dresser-Rand. He has experience of measuring techniques includ-ing flow visualisation, anemometry, pressure/temperature measure-ment and PIV.

Stéphane Berthier graduated as opto-electronics engineer from the French “école” Polytech Paris-Sud in 2007. Stéphane special-ised in optical design, signal/image processing and worked in various fields including mammography, retinal imaging and iris recognition. Stéphane joined Southside Thermal Science (STS) and later Sensor Coating Systems (SCS) in 2010 as product scientist, and participated in the first demonstration of STS technology on an operating gas turbine engine. Stéphane focuses on developing STS and SCS instrumentations and his role involves optical R&D, image processing and product design.

2014 Aircraft Engine Technology Award

The Awards

For outstanding contributions to the field of air breathing propulsionthrough inspiring leadership, education and research, having major impacts

on operational capability, performance, and design.

Dr. Ronald Bunker, Consulting Engineer at the GE Aviation in Cin-cinnati, OH, received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University in 1988. Dr. Bunker has been performing and directing research related to all aspects of turbine hot gas path heat transfer and cooling for the past 25 years. After receiving his PhD, he was awarded a one-year post-doctoral research fellowship from the Alexander von Hum-boldt Foundation of Germany under which he carried out research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Dr. Bunker subsequently joined GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati performing heat transfer design and analy-sis for both large commercial engines and advanced military engines, pri-marily in the critical cooling areas of the high-pressure turbine vanes and blades. From 1993 through 2013, he worked on research and development activities at GE Global Research, focusing on turbine vane and blade in-ternal and external heat transfer, combustor cooling, and manufacturing methods supporting both GE Aviation and GE Power & Water. Dr. Bunker has been awarded 75 US patents, with 60 more pending. He is the author of over 125 technical publications, refereed papers, and book chapters. He received the 2008 ASME Gas Turbine Award, served on the Board of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute for seven years, is a Fellow of ASME, and current Editor for the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery.

2014 Industrial Gas Turbine Technology Award

The Awards

For outstanding contributions and industry leadership in low emissionscombustion system research, design, development and deployment.

Salvatore A. Della Villa is the founder, Chairman, & CEO of Strategic Power Systems. He currently has over thirty-eight (38) years of experience in the reliability engineering and information technology disci-plines. He has led SPS in establishing the Operational Reliability Analysis Program (ORAP®) as the single largest global plant database in the energy industry. Prior to founding SPS in 1987, he held various positions in General Elec-tric’s turbine business operation, with a focus on “design for reliability” processes. He completed his undergraduate work at Siena College and his graduate work at Union College, focusing on mathematics, statistics, oper-ations research and industrial administration and management. He holds two US product patents. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a past Chairman of the Electric Power Committee, and a past Chairman of the ASME Standards Committee on reliability. He is a member of the Ameri-can Society for Quality Control, and an ASQ certified reliability engineer. He has served as a member of the World Energy Council’s working group on reliability, and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Electric Power Conference and a current member of the Gas Turbine Association (GTA).He has written and published numerous papers on reliability issues and performance trends in the industry, receiving a Best Paper Award in 2001 for a paper entitled “Gas Turbine Performance of Mature, F, and Advanced Technologies 2000.”

2014 Dilip R. Ballal Early Career Award

The Awards

Awarded to an individual who has made signifiicant contributionsin the gas turbine industry within the first five years of their career.

Dr. Nicole Key is an Associate Professor at Purdue University in the School of Mechanical Engineering. She obtained her Bachelors Degree from the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Purdue in 2000, and her Masters from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue in 2002. She then spent a year in Brussels, completing the Diploma Course at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, working on turbine tip flows. She returned to Purdue to complete her PhD where she focused on experi-mental vane clocking effects in a multistage compressor. After receiving her PhD in 2007, she became an Assistant Professor at Purdue. Dr. Key’s experimental research focuses on understanding the underlying flow phys-ics associated with primary and secondary flow phenomena in axial and radial compressors to enable more efficient, robust designs. Her research has been sponsored by NASA, Rolls-Royce, Honeywell, Siemens, Pratt & Whitney, GE, and the GUIde Consortium. She has advised 13 graduate theses and teaches courses in fluid mechanics and turbomachinery.

Aircraft Engine“A Novel Gas Generator Concept for Jet Engines

Using a Rotating Combustion Chamber”Peter Jeschke & Andreas Penkner

GT2013-95574

Ceramics“Development of Nondestructive Testing Method for

Examining Thermal Resistance of Thermal Barrier”Coatings on Gas Turbine Blades

Takayuki Ozeki, Tomoharu Fujii, Eiji Sakai, Tetsuo Fukuchi & Norikazu Fuse

GT2013-94748

Coal, Biomass & Alternative Fuels“Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Steam-Oxygen Fluidized

Gasifier Feeding a Combined Sofc/Orc Power Plant”Domenico Borello, Andrea Di Carlo, Andrea Marchegiani,

Eileen Tortora & Franco RispoliGT2013-95552

“Study of Microparticle Rebound Characteristics Under High Temperature Conditions”

Colin Reagle, J.M Delimont, Wing Ng & Srinath EkkadGT2013-95083

Combustion, Fuels & Emissions“High Fidelity Simulation of the Spray Generated by a Realistic

Swirling Flow Injector”Xiaoyi Li, Marios Soteriou, Wookyung Kim, Jeffrey Cohen,

Marcus Herrmann, Frank Ham, Dokyun Kim, Hung Le & John Spyropoulos

GT2013-96000

“Prediction of the NOx-Emissions of a Swirl Burner in Partially and Fully Premixed Mode on the Basis of Water Channel LIF and

PIV Measurements”Janine Sangl, Chris Mayer, & Thomas Sattelmayer

GT2013-95796

Controls, Diagnostics & Instrumentation“Real Time Analytical Linearization of Turbofan Engine Model”Gi-Yun Chung, J.V.R Prasad, Manuj Dhingra & Richard Meisner

GT2013-94464

cycle innovations“The Role of Dense Gas Dynamics on ORC Turbine”

Andrew Wheeler & Jonathan OngGT2013-95858

ASME IGTI Committee Best PapersThe Awards

cycle innovations Cont...

“Missions Performance Simulation of Integrated Helicopter-Engine System Using an Aeroelastic Rotor Model”

Ioannis Goulos, Panos Giannakakis, Vassilios Pachidis & Pericles Pilidis

GT2013-94798

“Avoiding Compressor Surge During Emergency Shut-Down Hybrid Turbine Systems”

Paolo Pezzini, David Tucker & Alberto TraversoGT2013-94810

Education“Estimating Gas Turbine Engine Weight, Costs, and Development Time

During the Preliminary Aircraft Engine Design Process”Kenneth Van Treuren, Aaron R. Byerly & August J. Rolling

GT2013-95778

“Thrust Vectoring Design Project at Six Universities (Part I): Project Description and Final Designs”

Mark Turner, Jeffrey Bons, Rory Roberts, Markus Rumpfkeil, Timothy Smith, James Van Kuren, Joseph Ausserer & Paul Litke

GT2013-95602 

Electric Power“Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Dynamic Simulation: A Physics Based

Simple Approach”John Gulen & Kihyung Kim

GT2013-94584

Heat Transfer“Time-Resolved Film-Cooling Flows at Low and High Density Ratios”

Molly Eberly & Karen Thole GT2013-95031

“Investigation of a Radial Inflow Bleed as a Potential for Compressor Clearance Control”

Nick AtkinsGT2013-95768

“Comparison Of Temperature Profile And Heat Transfer Predictions

With Statistically-Modeled Data From A Cooled 1-1/2 Stage High-Pressure Transonic Turbine”

Harika Kahveci, & Kevin KirtleyGT2013-94242

ASME IGTI Committee Best PapersThe Awards

Industrial & Cogeneration “Evaluation of Axial Compressor Characteristics Under Overspray

Condition”Chihiro Myoren, Yasuo Takahashi, Manabu Yagi, Tadaharu Kishibe

& Takanori ShibataGT2013-95402

Manufacturing Materials & Metallurgy “Development of a Tool for Temperature Estimation from Micro-structural Condition of a NiCoCrAlY+Re Coating Applied on the

Surface of Gas Turbine Hot Components”Alessio Costa, Erica Vacchieri, Emma Barbareschi, Paola Guarnone,

Alessandra Bonadei & Claudia CalcagnoGT2013-95675

Microturbines, Turbochargers, & Small Turbomachines“Advances in the Development of a Micro-Gas

Turbine Engine at ONERA”Olivier Dessornes, Stephane Burguburu, Antoine Fourmaux, Roger

Valle, Stephane Landais, Christof Zwyssig & Zbigniew Kozanecki GT2013-94005

“Optimization of a Centrifugal Compressor Impeller Design for Ro-bustness to Manufacturing Uncertainties”

Adeel Javed, Rene Pecnik & Jos P. Van Buijtenen GT2013-95515

“MEMS-Scale Turbomachinery Based Vacuum Roughing Pump”Anthony Gannon, Garth Hobson, Michael Shea, Christopher Clay

& Knox MillsapsGT2013-95885

Oil & Gas Applications“Application of a Statistical Methodology for Gas Turbine

Degradation Prognostics to Alstom Field Data”Mauro Venturini & Dirk Therkorn

GT2013-94407

Structures & Dynamics“Creep and Fatigue of Single Crystal and Directionally Solidified

Nickel-Base Blades via a Unified Approach Based On Hill48 Potential Function. Part 1: Plasticity And Creep & Part 2: Low Cycle Fatigue”

Paolo Villari & Alessandro RamagliaGT2013-94675 & GT2013-94676

ASME IGTI Committee Best PapersThe Awards

Structures & Dynamics Cont...

“Modeling Of Abradable Coating Removal in Aircraft EnginesThrough Delay Differential Equations”

Alain Batailly, Nicolas Salvat & Mathias LegrandGT2013-94400

“Reduced Order Modeling Based on Complex Nonlinear Modal Analysis and its Application to Bladed Disks with Shroud Contact”

Malte Krack, Lars Panning-von Scheidt, Christian Siewert & Andreas Hartung

GT2013-94560

Steam Turbine“Unsteady CFD Simulation of Control Valve in Throttling Condi-

tions and Comparison with Experiments”Giorgio Zanazzi, Otmar Schaefer, Michael Sell & Colin Ridoutt

GT2013-94788

“On Kinematic Relaxation and Deposition of Water Droplets in the Last Stages of Low Pressure Steam Turbines”

Jorg Starzmann, Peter Kaluza, Michael Casey & Frank SieverdingGT2013-95179

Turbomachinery“Development of a Novel Mixing Plane Interface Using a

Fully Implicit Averaging for Stage Analysis”Luca Mangani, Lucian Hanimann, Ernesto Casartelli, Thomas Mokulys

& Sebastiano MauriGT2013-94390

“Investigation of Wake Induced Transition in Low-Pressure Turbines Using Large Eddy Simulation”

Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani, Paul Tucker, Richard Jefferson-Loveday & John Coull

GT2013-94418

“Inlet Condition Effects on the Tip Clearance Flow with Zonal Detached Eddy Simulation”

William Riera, Lionel Castillon, Julien Marty & Francis LeboeufGT2013-94187

Wind Energy“Simulation of Wake Interactions in Wind Farms Using an Immersed

Wind Turbine Model”Samira Jafari, Ndaona Chokani & Reza Abhari

GT2013-96035

ASME IGTI Committee Best PapersThe Awards

Outgoing ASME IGTI Board Member

The Awards

Lee Langston, Philip Andrew & Thomas Sattelmayer

Outgoing Committee Chairs

The Awards

CeramicsSung Choi

Coals, Biomass & Alternative Fuels

Leiyong Jiang

Controls, Diagnostics& InstrumentationRichard Meisner

EducationMark Turner

Electric PowerMichael Ladwig

Heat TransferTing Wang

Manufacturing Materials & Metallurgy

Pontus Slottner

Structures & DynamicsDamian Vogt

Young Engineer Travel Award Recipients

The Awards

Christopher Pilgrim

Alex Rosenbaum

Kevin Ryan

Robert Schroeder

Joshua Waite

Fanny Besem

Manu Kamin

Shalash Karim

Katie Kirsch

Julia Ling

Roberto Maffulli

Kiran Manoharan

Patrick Migliorini

Lucio Monaco

Neal Morgan

Notes

congratulations to allaward recipients and

thank you to all asme igticommittee award

representatives whosework assists the awardsand honors chair andthe reading committee.