Pictures of the Month 2018

The members of the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The picture shows a detail of our annular cascade test rig and was used for the TU Graz christmas card.
December 2018
Melanie Kreuzer, our secretary of many years, left us in October to begin the study of Sustainable Food Management at FH Joanneum. We wish her much success!
November 2018
Having ice-cream with Dr. Elmar Fuchs from the European Center of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (WETSUS) and Anna Lenz, summer trainee at the institute
October 2018
Prof. Giovanni Manente from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Unversity of Padova, Italy, held lectures at our institute in April 2018 about power cycles and turbines for renewable and low grade energy sources in the frame of the Erasmus Teaching Mobility
September 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Zerobin who received his PhD on 22 June 2018. He worked on the aerodynamic performance of turbine center frames under the presence of high-pressure turbine rotor purge flows
August 2018
The "delegates" of the institute at the ASME Turbo Expo 2018 where they presented recent research results. The Turbo Expo is the most important conference on turbomachinery with more than 1000 papers and was held in Oslo, Norway, from June 11-15.
July 2018
Prof. Ismail H. Tuncer from the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, held lectures at our institute about wind energy and airfoil optimization in the frame of the Erasmus Teaching Mobility
June 2018
We heartly congratulate our former research assistant Dr. Cornelia Santner to her marriage with Roman Müllauer
May 2018
Mag. Christian Wehrschütz, ORF correspondent for the Balkans and Ukraine, and journalist of the year 2014 visits his school friend Prof. Jakob Woisetschläger and is impressed how Austrian research has benefited from EU membership.
April 2018
The young team of the institute at the presentation of the first wine of the year 2017 ("Junker presentation")
March 2018
Ilaria Cabona, Master student from University of Genoa, Italy, and Michael Steiner show the mid turbine duct investigated in the annular cascade (ANCA) of the insitute. Oil flow visulization was applied to study the flow along the walls.
February 2018
Congratulations to our former research assistant Pascal Bader to his wedding
January 2018