INTERNAL AIR SYSTEMS
The internal air system is at the core of a jet engine. You can’t see it from the nacelle but it’s there and involves the delightfully challenging topic of rotating flow to make everything work. Some say this topic is even more complex than rocket science.
COMPRESSOR STATOR WELLS RESEARCH
1994 - 2000
Compressor Stator Well heat generation correlation.
TURBINE STATOR WELLS
2000 - 2008
Rig design
Production and testing.
ROLLS-ROYCE TRENT
ENGINE SERIES
2000 - 2008
Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) for Aero-Thermal Systems.
Trent series
500 - 600 - 700 - 800 - 900 - 1000
RESEARCH
Turbine disc windage correlation; Compressor drum flow.
ROTATING FLOW MONOGRAPH
2005 - 2009
TAYLOR VORTEX FLOW
Flow and heat transfer in an annulus with inner rotating cylinder. Rig design, production, testing & analysis
“Review of Convective Heat Transfer in Open and Closed Rotating
Annular Cavities.”
Childs, P.R.N., Long, C.A., and Turner, A.B. A
2007 - 2009
IMechE Conference Transactions, 4th UK National Conference on Heat Transfer Paper, 1995..
LABYRINTH SEALS
Labyrinth Seal Flow. ESDU 09004
Childs, P.R.N. 2009
2009
CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR DESIGN & MANUFACTURE
JP Davies Award
1997
1999 International Gas Turbine Institute, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (IGTI-ASME).
John P. Davis Award for exceptional contribution to the literature of gas turbine technology.