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Project description
Third-cycle subject: Energy Technology
Modern high performance aircraft engines have highly loaded components, both mechanically and aerodynamically. The motors are so optimized that aeroelastic problems not only arise in blades and guide vanes, but also need to be considered in other parts that typically interact with the motor's guide vanes, such as bleeding systems and rotor cavities. It is of the utmost importance to minimize the risk of instantaneous loads on, for example, the low-pressure compressor to avoid fatigue or catastrophic failure. Cavities such as bleed systems or between rotating and stationary parts are prone to acoustic resonance driven by aerodynamics. In addition to aerodynamic requirements, bleeding systems also have requirements not to cause strong transient loads on the compressor due to acoustic resonance. In order to minimize the risk of resonance in the bleed system analysis/design methods that support validation data are needed, which is the purpose to produce within the proposed project. The overall goal is to systematically quantify the coupled resonance that arises between shear layer instabilities in the passing boundary layer and the acoustic cavity. This is through wind tunnel experiments used to validate internal calculation codes in the industry to improve the predictability of these phenomena.
The turbomachinery cluster at the Department of Energy Technology, which this project falls under, is a well-established research group with many years of experience from both EU projects, national program research and commissioned research in collaboration with Swedish and international industry and/or academia. The applied research often involves some experimental rig in the department, as in this project. This research project is part of the Swedish National Aviation Research Program (NFFP7) with funding from Vinnova. Reporting is made to partner company, and further to NFFP7 (Vinnova).
What we offer
Eligibility
To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:
The applicant must have completed coursework in fluid mechanics.
Selection
In order to succeed as an doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. In the selection of the applicants, the following will be assessed:
Experience from the turbomachinery field and/or experimental investigations are merits.
Experience/courses in acoustics are of merit.
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and personal suitability.
Target degree: Doctoral Degree
Information regarding admission and employment
Only those who are or have been admitted to third-cycle studies may be employed as a doctoral student. The term of the initial contract may not exceed one year and may there after be extended. Doctoral students may engage in teaching, research, and administration corresponding to a maximum of 20 % of a full-time position.
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Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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Application
Apply for the position and admission through KTH's recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.
Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/entral European Summer Time).
Applications must include the following elements:
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | According to agreement |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | M-2019-2186 |
Contact |
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Published | 17.Oct.2019 |
Last application date | 07.Nov.2019 11:59 PM CET |