ASME September Meeting

Networking starts at 6:30 PM

Dinner orders will start at 7 PM - Order from the menu

Presentation will start at 8 PM

Presentation by Dr. Bijay (BJ) K. Sultanian, Ph.D., PE, MBA, ASME Fellow; will be in 2 parts

Part I will be an Overview of ASME Turbo Expo

ASME Turbo Expo is recognized as the must-attend event for turbomachinery professionals. The technical conference has a well-earned reputation for bringing together the best and the brightest experts from around the world to share the latest in turbine technology, research, development, and design applications. Turbo Expo offers unrivalled networking opportunities with a dedicated and diverse trade show floor. In this part, Dr. Bijay Sultanian will give a brief overview of ASME Turbo Expo. In particular, he will share the secrets of effective and nearly flawless organization of over 200 technical papers in nearly 50 technical sessions from the K14 Heat Transfer Committee (around 175 members) for which he has been the Point Contact during Turbo Expo 2013, 2016, and 2017, and he will perform this role 2018.

Part II

Physics-Based Post-Processing of 3-D CFD Results: The Entropy Map to Optimize a Thermofluids Design

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) entails microanalysis using at times millions of small control volumes and generating flow properties like static pressure, static temperature, and three velocity components in each of them. Over the last 35 years, three key factors have accelerated the industrial use of CFD. The first is the emergence of multiple commercial CFD codes. Second, the continuous reduction in design cost and cycle time drove industries to adopt the CFD technology in their design practices, more to reduce their testing budget. Third, seeing the emerging industrial trend for CFD technology, experimentalists and CFD technologists at universities started working as a team in their research activities, which further accelerated the growth in each area with significant benefits to industrial design and development. The major challenge a CFD engineer faces today is how to post-process 3-D CFD results for design applications and to compare them with those obtained from a reduced-order modeling (macro-analysis). This presentation will provide techniques to carry out physics-based post-processing of 3-D CFD results. Additionally, the concept of a CFD-based entropy map will be introduced, including its powerful application in optimizing thermofluids designs in many engineering disciplines.

Dr. Bijay Sultanian is an international authority in gas turbine heat transfer, secondary air systems, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Dr. Sultanian is Founder & Managing Member of Takaniki Communications, LLC , a provider of high impact, web-based and live technical training programs for corporate engineering teams, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Florida. During his 30+ years in the gas turbine industry, Dr. Sultanian has worked in and led technical teams at a number of organizations, including Allison Gas Turbines (now Rolls-Royce), GE Aircraft Engines (now GE Aviation), GE Power Generation (now GE Power), and Siemens Energy (now Siemens Power & Gas). During 1971-81, he made landmark contributions toward the design and development of India’s first liquid rocket engine for a surface-to-air missile (Prithvi) and the first numerical heat transfer model of steel ingots for optimal operations of soaking pits in India’s steel plants.

Dr. Sultanian is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio (1995), a GE-certified Six Sigma Green Belt (1998), and an Emeritus Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (1984). His graduate-level textbook Fluid Mechanics: An Intermediate Approach was published by Taylor & Francis on July 28, 2015. His next textbooks Gas Turbines: Internal Flow Systems Modeling (Cambridge University Press) and Logan’s Turbomachinery: Flowpath Design and Performance Fundamentals, Third Edition (Taylor & Francis) are to be published in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He has been the Point Contact for the K14 Heat Transfer Committee for ASME Turbo Expo 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Dr. Sultanian received his B.Tech. and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1971) and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1978), respectively. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe (1984) and MBA from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999).