Project Dream - UNIFI University of Florence

The “Sergio Stecco” Department of Energy Engineering of the University of Florence was founded in 1983, and consists of several research branches:

Numerical Analysis, Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Industrial

Power Plant and Technology, Machinery and Applied Mechanics.

The staff consists of 65 members: 20 full professors, 12 associate

professors, 22 assistant professors, 11 technical and administrative

personnel. Another 30 students are enrolled in various Ph.D. programs,

along with 35 research fellows.

The research group leaded by Prof. Andrea Arnone has been working for about 20 years in the field of applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). More recently started the research activity in the field of Computational Aeroelasticity (CA) and Computational Aeroacustics (CAA).

The flow solver (TRAF) and the codes developed by the group are specifically tuned to assist turbomachinery designers in advanced aerodynamic applications and are used worldwide by leading companies and research centres.

Since 1998 the group was involved in several European Community research projects, including EEFAE, AITEB, UTAT, VITAL, TATMo, AITEB II and FUTURE.

UNIFI AND DREAM

UNIFI expertise in the DREAM concerns:

• research on applied CFD and CAA to innovative industrial design

• large expertise in the field of turbomachinery unsteady calculations with emphasis on component interactions,

turbulence and transition modeling in multistage environments.

UNIFI is involved in WP3.3 “Contra-rotating turbine”.
The role is to perform aero design support,
new stage concept development, and to provide
methodological contribution for noise assessment.

The project offers to UNIFI the unique opportunity of participating
in a work group together with industrial partners and to further
develop CFD and CAA packages for the design and analysis
of advanced turbomachinery components.