Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences
Since 1956, the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk has been conducting advanced research for the benefit of Polish science and economy in the field of the principles of operation, design and construction of machines used for energy conversion in flows, such as: steam and gas turbines, micro-power turbines, wind turbines, water turbines, pumps, jet engines, compressors, and fans. Thus, the Institute is actively involved in the energy transition.
Areas:
machine construction and operation, mechanics, energy
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About the institute:
Basic and applied research and development work is carried out by 19 research teams concentrated within five scientific centers in the areas of fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, thermodynamics and heat transfer, combustion, plasma physics, laser techniques, nanomaterials, machine mechanics, intelligent structure mechanics, technical diagnostics and structural condition monitoring, tribology, and aerosilience. Research is conducted at the headquarters in Gdańsk and at the KEZO Research Center in Jabłonna, as well as in real-world conditions, including pilot installations developed jointly with industrial partners and in power plants and industrial facilities.
The institute also offers research and development services related to practical engineering problems, machine and equipment design, analyses, and technical expertise.
The unit owes its nationally and internationally recognized brand mainly to its interdisciplinary research on various types of flow machines, in particular water, wind, steam, and gas turbines, as well as entire energy systems and other conventional and renewable energy sources. What distinguishes the Institute from similar scientific and research units is its advanced experimental research and theoretical analysis of phenomena occurring during energy conversion (such as multiphase flows, phase transitions, combustion, emissions, vibrations and noise, and the formation of