EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Propulsion and Power

英国在航空推进和发电行业享有卓越的国际声誉，并且处于基础航空热科学和技术研究的前沿。通过目前的燃气涡轮机空气动力学CDT，英国也确立了自己在该领域研究生培训的全球领导者地位。但这个行业正在进入一个加速变革和市场混乱的时期。在航空航天领域，持续减少排放的驱动力需要对喷气发动机进行重大的结构改变，以及采用集成发动机-机身设计的全新电气化概念。在发电方面，需要快速响应和灵活操作的燃气轮机来支持可再生能源不断增长的容量。此外，随着快速多学科设计工具和增材制造的出现，传统的物理（实验测试）和数字（计算模拟）世界正在融合。这些挑战的共同点是数据生成速率的快速增长以及工程师将这些信息转换为创新设计变更的要求。为了保持其领导地位，英国必须培养新一代工程师，使其具备在这个数据丰富的环境中进行创新所需的技能。未来推进和动力的新CDT将培养工程师，使其具备未来气动热力工程师所需的数据，学习和设计以及系统集成技能。工程师将需要处理来自最新多学科模拟、实验测试或现场真实的发动机的前所未有的数据量。由此，工程师将需要通过对数据的批判性评估，酌情使用人工智能和数据科学，对照参考基础航空热科学开发的假设，来进行学习。本学习的关键输出是改进设计，无论是单个组件或过程，还是集成系统（例如电动推进器，城市空中出租车，快速响应发电）。新成立的CDT未来推进和动力中心将提供这套以气动热为重点的综合技能。该中心由三所大学和四个行业合作伙伴组成，每个合作伙伴都拥有互补的专业知识和技能，但都有一个共同的愿景，即提供为推进和动力教育树立全球基准的培训体验。合作机构的实验室在空气动力学（剑桥）、传热学（牛津）和燃烧室空气动力学（拉夫堡）的研究方面一直处于领先地位。新的硕士课程将利用这三所大学的专业知识，在基础航空热科学，实验和计算数据生成和关键评估以及空气动力学设计过程中培养学生。数据科学培训将由艾伦图灵研究所举办的研讨会和中心大学使用先进数据分析的研究人员提供。行业合作伙伴（劳斯莱斯、西门子、三菱重工和戴森）致力于定义、交付和支持中心（他们将资助至少35名学生）。除了为研究项目提供一个途径，以促进真实的产品，赞助公司还提供定制的行业课程，以CDT的学生;他们提供了一个制造，运营和系统集成的背景下，只有行业可以提供。行业合作伙伴将在其行业课程中包括数据分析（来自R2 Data Labs - Rolls-Royce和MindSphere/IoT - Siemens）。这些公司以及英国相关行业的其他公司以其独特的、以空气动力学为重点的数据、学习和设计技能，确保了对新CDT毕业生的需求。

The UK has an international reputation for excellence in the aero-propulsion and power generation industry and is at the forefront of research into the underpinning aero-thermal science and technology. Through the current CDT in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics, the UK has also established itself as the global leader in graduate training in the field. But this sector is entering a period of accelerated change and market disruption. In aerospace, the continuing drive to reduce emissions is necessitating major architecture changes in jet engines as well as entirely new electrified concepts with integrated engine-airframe designs. In power generation, fast response and flexible operation gas turbines are required to support the increasing capacity of renewables. In addition, the traditional physical (experimental tests) and digital (computational simulation) worlds are merging with the advent of rapid multi-disciplinary design tools and additive manufacturing. The common thread in these challenges is the rapid increase in the rate of generation of data and the requirement for engineers to convert this information into innovative design changes. To maintain its leadership position, the UK must train a new generation of engineers with the skills needed to innovate in this data-rich environment.The new CDT in Future Propulsion and Power will train engineers with the Data, Learning and Design, and Systems Integration skills required by aero-thermal engineers of the future. Engineers will need to handle an unprecedented volume of Data from the latest multi-disciplinary simulations, experimental tests, or from real engines in the field. From this, engineers will need to distil Learning by a critical evaluation of the data, using AI and data science as appropriate, against hypotheses developed with reference to the underpinning aero-thermal science. The critical output from this Learning is improved Design, be that of a an individual component or process, or an Integrated System (e.g. electrically driven propulsor, urban air taxi, fast-response power generation). This set of coupled, aero-thermal focussed skills will be provided by the new CDT in Future Propulsion and Power.The Centre is a collaboration between three universities and four industry partners, each with complimentary expertise and skills, but with a shared vision to deliver a training experience that sets the global benchmark for Propulsion and Power education. The laboratories of the partner institutions have a track record of research leadership in turbomachinery aerodynamics (Cambridge), heat transfer (Oxford) and combustor aerodynamics (Loughborough). The new Master's course will use expertise from the three universities to train students in the underpinning aero-thermal science, in the experimental and computational data generation and critical evaluation, and in the process of aerodynamic design. Data Science training will be provided by Workshops delivered by the Alan Turing Institute and by researchers using advanced data analytics in the Centre's universities.The Industry Partners (Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Dyson) are committed to defining, delivering and supporting the Centre (they will fund a minimum of 35 studentships). As well as providing a pathway for research projects to contribute to real products, the sponsoring companies also deliver bespoke industry courses to the students of the CDT; they provide a manufacturing, operation and Systems Integration context that only industry can offer. The Industry Partners will include data analytics (from R2 Data Labs - Rolls-Royce, and MindSphere/IoT - Siemens) in their industry courses. These companies, and others in related sectors in the UK, ensure a demand for the graduates of the new CDT with their unique, aerodynamics-focussed, Data, Learning and Design skill set.