The course benefits from the team of universities (Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Loughborough) and companies (Rolls-Royce, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Siemens, Dyson) that are collaborating to deliver the CDT. This team enables the course to provide students with an advanced course in the aerodynamics of gas turbines (compressors, combustors and turbines), as well as the skills (experimental, computational and transferrable) required to become the research and design leaders of the future in the field, in both academia and industry.
The programme aims to:
- produce research and design leaders of the future, in academia and industry, in the field of gas turbine aerodynamics;provide comprehensive research preparation training;
- produce research and design leaders of the future, in academia and industry, in the field of gas turbine aerodynamics;
- provide comprehensive research preparation training;
- equip students with a specialised technical understanding of the aerodynamics of each of the three major gas turbine components (compressor, combustor and turbine) and knowledge of the experimental and computational tools used in their design;
- expose students to the compromises and trade-offs that are inherent in the design of a real machine, including the limitations imposed by mechanical constraints, the interactions between components when they are integrated together to form the complete product, and the challenges of system-level optimisation;
- foster the development of non-technical research skills such as leadership, personal effectiveness, report writing, oral communication and presentations; and
- expose students to different research groups and industry environments.
