Design and Process Engineering
· Designing, construction, calculation, technology of manufacturing, technical preparation of manufacturing including assembly and testing,
· Thermal and nuclear power plant devices such as steam and combustion turbines, steam generators, steam power plants and heating plants including nuclear power stations, industrial power engineering and their environmental aspects,
· Water turbines, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic pumps, piping systems, hydroelectric power plants, and pumping stations,
· Machinary and devices for chemical industry, food-stuff industry, and biotechnological treatment lines,
· Construction, modelling and theoretical studies of machines and devices for cutting, forming machines, industrial robots, and manipulators,
· Machine parts and mechanisms, methodology of designing machine elements and working mechanisms of general application with consideration of stochastic qualities of inputs, including the application of special types of machines and devices,
· Cars, vans and lorries, buses, trailers, semi-trailers, and motorcycles,
· Combustion engines for all types of vehicle drives, simulation of combustion engine thermomechanical systems, dynamics of driving gear, engine accessories, ecology,
· Machines and devices for in-plant handling of material and handling between operations, for the mining and transport of building materials, for passenger conveyance in buildings,
· Aerodynamic calculation and designing, flight mechanics, fatigue and durability of aircraft constructions, aeroelasticity of aircraft,
· Quality of machine industry production.

prof. Ing. Václav Píštěk, DrSc.

1. Suppression of shock waves at the leading edge of the rotor blades of steam turbines

   The job description is to assess the options for optimizing the geometry of the profile rortorových blades with respect to the reduction of shock waves generated at the leading edge of the blade. Attention will be primarily focused on the area near the tip of the blade of long blades. Partial task will be to understand and sufficiently accurately describe supersonic flow conditions and propagation of shock waves. To resolve this issue will be used for numerical modeling method of control volumes, which will be implemented parametric study of the progression of the shock waves. Experimental verification will depend on the availability of data provided by commercial entities.

   Tutor: Pospíšil Jiří, doc. Ing., Ph.D.