Center For Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management
The Ohio Center for Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management (CIPALM) was established in 2008 through a $27.5M Ohio Research Scholar Award from the Ohio Department of Development. The goal of the University of Cincinnati led center is to ensure Ohio’s continued eminence in power and propulsion research. The cluster supports the development of future intelligent adaptive power and propulsion systems with advanced energy sources for low emission, and superior reliability through service life and thermal management.
Built on Ohio’s current strengths, CIPALM’s mission is:
- to develop innovative, breakthrough technologies to provide the next generation of aircraft power and propulsion systems, alternative fuel synthesis, life management of advanced composite materials and intelligent thermal management technologies.
- to ensure continued international prominence in these areas through robust academic, business, and government collaborations.
The center's research scholars at the University of Cincinnati, University of Dayton Research Institute and Ohio State University possess the expertise to meet future challenges of the global aeronautics market through improved fuel efficiency and life cycle performance, while minimizing evironmental impact and consumer cost.
CIPALM Labs
- Combustion Research Laboratory
- High Temperature Erosion Lab
- Gas Dynamics and Propulsion Lab
- Gas Turbine Simulation Lab
- Ultrasonic Imaging Lab
- Propulsion Systems and Aeroacoustics Simulation Lab
- Nondestructive Evaluation Lab
Center Director
Awatef Hamed
Professor Emeritus, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics
745B Baldwin Hall
- Director, High Temperature Gas Turbine Erosion Lab
- Director, Center for Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management of Systems
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Research Interests
- Thermal Management
- Gas Turbines and Turbomachinery Erosion
- Simulation of high speed flows
Ohio Research Scholars
Dr. Datta Gaitonde
Glenn Chair/Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer, Ohio State University
Francesco Simonetti
Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics
726 Rhodes Hall
Jongguen Lee
Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics
484 MANTEI
He has been collaborating with many major gas turbine/aircraft industries such as GE Aviation, GE Energy, Pratt and Whitney, Siemens-Westinghouse, Solar Turbines, Doosan Heavy Industry as well as the AFRL-Wright Patterson, NASA-GRC and DOE NETL (Natural Energy Technology Laboratory, Morgantown, WV) in those areas.
Dr. Zhenhua Jiang
Researcher in Electrical Power Systems, University of Dayton Reserach Institute
Professors
San-Mou Jeng
Professor Emeritus, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics
480 MANTEI
Peter B. Nagy
Professor Emeritus, CEAS - Aerospace Eng
484 MANTEI
Ephraim J. Gutmark
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar , CEAS - Aerospace Eng
799 Rhodes Hall
- Gas Turbines for Power Generation and Propulsion Systems
- Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- Detonation and Combustion
- Heat Transfer
- Rocket and Airbreathing Propulsion
- Aeroacoustics
- Biomedical applications: airway, voice, hemodynamics
- Plume Characteristics
- Aerodynamics
- Oil-well Drilling Hydrodynamics
- Diagnostics
Dr. Asif Syde
Research Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineerin, Gas Dynamics and Propulsion Lab.
Dr. Michael Dunn
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Ohio State University
Dr. Jeffrey Bons
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Lab