United Engine Corporation (part of Rostec State Corporation) and FGU “Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Mathematics. M.V. Keldysh Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as IPM named after M.V. Keldysh RAS) signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of calculations and solving other problems of mathematical modeling in gas turbine engine building.
The agreement was signed in Moscow as part of the IPM conference. M.V. Keldysh of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Problems and prospects of predictive mathematical modeling of key processes in gas turbine engines", which took place at the site of the institute.
The subject of the agreement is the establishment of partnerships and the development of long-term, effective and mutually beneficial cooperation in carrying out calculations (including virtual tests) in the areas of aeroacoustics, flow in turbines at low Reynolds numbers, modeling processes in modern combustion chambers, sound-absorbing structures, etc. One of the important elements of cooperation will be the creation and development of a joint knowledge base, holding scientific and practical events on the topic of achievements in the field of mathematical modeling.
“For the United Engine Corporation, it is important to organize mutually beneficial cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences,” said Yury Shmotin, Deputy General Director - General Designer of JSC UEC. - The signed agreement defines the main directions of our joint work with the Institute of Applied Mathematics. M.V. Keldysh, and we will definitely develop them within the framework of the JEC projects. One of the main tasks for today is at the stage of development of a gas turbine engine, when designing its parts and systems, to obtain the specified characteristics already during the first experiment. It is impossible to achieve this without serious calculations, which are a very important addition to full-scale tests.”
“It is difficult to overestimate the role that the scientific potential of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. M.V. Keldysh can play in the implementation of promising projects of the Russian engine building industry, - said the Deputy Director of the IPM. M.V. Keldysh RAS on scientific work Andrey Afendikov. - We are not a commercial organization and do not offer a mass software product. We do piece work, but this is what allows us to provide a scientific and technological breakthrough, namely, to move away from packages that often reflect the state of science of yesterday, and reach a new level of efficiency and competitiveness.”
At the conference IPM them. M.V. Keldysh RAS with reports and presentations on the application of various methods of mathematical modeling in the UEC were made by representatives of a number of its enterprises: Deputy Head of the External Characteristics Department of JSC UEC-Aviadvigatel Alexander Siner, Leading Design Engineer of JSC UEC-Klimov Artem Lapin, Design Engineer -calculator of JSC "UEC-Aviadvigatel" Maxim Kazimardanov, head of the design department of engineering analysis systems of PJSC "ODK-Saturn" Kirill Pyatunin and deputy head of the department of strength and heat and mass transfer of OKB PK "Salyut" JSC "UEC" Yuri Gorelov.
The use of modern methods of digital modeling and calculations in the aircraft industry is one of the important directions in the development strategy of the aviation cluster of the Rostec State Corporation.
85 years ago, by Decree of the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR dated October 31, 1933 No. 104, the first state missile organization in the country and the world was created - the Reactive Research Institute of the RNII (now the State Scientific Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center").
RNII was created on the basis of the Leningrad Gas Dynamics Laboratory and the Moscow Group for the Study of Jet Propulsion. The institute was headed by a military engineer of the 1st rank Ivan Terentyevich Kleimenov.
In a short time, the RNII became a research and development organization that organically combined the design, manufacture and testing of missiles and rocket projectiles, aircraft and engines for them with scientific research that ensured the creation of these rocket technology objects.
Subsequently, the institute was renamed the Research Institute of Thermal Processes (1965), became part of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering and became the head research enterprise of the rocket and space industry for rocket engine building, in 1995 it was renamed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center", and in 2008 FSUE "Keldysh Center" was awarded the status of the State Scientific Center by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.
In 1992, the institute became part of the Russian Space Agency (RKA, Roskosmos).
At present, the State Research Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Keldysh Center” is a diversified head enterprise of the rocket and space industry for rocket engine building, space energy and functional nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for space technology. It is part of the structure of the Roscosmos State Corporation and is actively involved in the development, production and testing of promising models of various types of rocket engines (RD), space power plants, high-energy beam generators and particle accelerators. At the same time, special attention is paid to the quality and reliability of the developed products.
Large-scale space projects for research, defense and national economic purposes have been implemented at the State Scientific Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center", a new aspect of activity is actively developing - international, which has made it possible to establish interaction and implement a number of joint promising projects with leading rocket and space companies in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Since 2003, the institute has been working in the field of creating infrared hyperspectral equipment for remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere. An onboard infrared Fourier spectrometer of the IKFS-2 series (spectral range 5…15 µm, spectral resolution 0.4 cm -1) designed to meet the needs of global and regional operational meteorology and climatology has been created. The high spectral resolution makes it possible to restore the vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, and ozone from the measured spectra, which are the initial data for numerical weather forecasting. In 2014, IKFS-2 was put into operation as part of the Meteor-M spacecraft No. 2, has been in orbit to this day and continues to operate. According to the main characteristics of the IRFS-2, with the exception of the spatial resolution, it is not inferior to foreign analogues (European device IASI, American CrIS), and surpasses them in energy-mass characteristics. To date, a sample of IKFS-3 has been made for development tests and an electrical layout.
In 2007, by a decree of the Government of the State Research Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center", it was appointed the head organization of Roscosmos in the field of nanotechnologies in the direction of "functional materials for space technology" and the Center for the Application of Nanotechnologies in the Energy and Power Supply of Space Systems. Employees of the Center for the Application of Nanotechnologies in the Energy and Power Supply of Space Systems mastered the technologies of plasma-cluster coating, atomic layer deposition, the synthesis of diamond plates, the production of powders (nanoscale range of oxides and micron range for additive technologies), developed gas composition sensors that work on new materials , sensors of physical quantities, there are interesting applications for materials with a shape memory effect. A large amount of research is being carried out to ensure the work of emergency commissions to understand the causes of abnormal launches, as well as studies of components and materials of rocket and space technology (RKT) in order to determine the changes that took place during fire tests.
Since 2009, the State Research Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center" has been the lead organization in the implementation of the project to create a space transport and power module (TEM) based on a nuclear power propulsion system (NPP), which has no analogues in the world, focused on the implementation of large-scale programs for the study of outer space, on creation of qualitatively new means of high power-to-weight ratio. In cooperation with the enterprises of the Roscosmos State Corporation, Rosatom and the Russian Academy of Sciences, work is underway to develop, manufacture and ground test elements, blocks and assemblies of megawatt-class nuclear power plants and TEMs based on it.
Successful work is being done on modeling workflows in RD and their design, including gas dynamics and heat and mass transfer, combustion and thermochemical processes, problems of vibrational combustion in LRE, processes of interaction of structural materials with an oxidizing and reducing environment. Research and theoretical developments are also carried out, which contribute to the introduction of advanced technical solutions in the practice of engine building.
Today, work is underway on the creation and development of the main elements and assemblies of sustainer reusable rocket engines, including a diagnostics and emergency protection system, engines of new circuit solutions for upper stages, work on the modernization of operating propulsion systems of LV and RB in order to increase their reliability, implementation and use in products RKT of structural elements from carbon-carbon and carbon-ceramic composite materials, new solid propellant rocket engines on advanced fuel components for propulsion systems of launch vehicles and interorbital transportation vehicles.
A series of electric rocket engines of various sizes, a wide range of power and increased specific impulse, used as part of spacecraft for various purposes, has been developed and manufactured at the State Scientific Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Center of Keldysh". Motors with a power of 100 W to 10 kW have been created.
Work is underway to create ion engines with a specific impulse of 3500 ... 7000 s. Laboratory models and prototypes of motors with a rated power of 50…35000 W have been developed and tested.
A lot of experience has been accumulated in the field of interaction of electric magnetic waves with plasma formations.
The Institute widely introduces key space technologies into the national economy, paying special attention to the creation of environmentally friendly technologies and processes. A wide range of water treatment equipment is manufactured for the purification of natural and desalination of sea and brackish waters to the level of drinking water, for the treatment of wastewater from industrial enterprises.
The SSC FSUE "Keldysh Center" has a unique research and experimental base. Many test installations and benches are classified as unique in terms of their set of technical characteristics, having no analogues in Russia and other countries with a developed rocket and space industry.
Since 1942, more than 700 employees of the Keldysh Center have been awarded orders, more than 80 have become laureates of State Prizes, prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation, more than 13 have received honorary titles of Honored Workers of Science.
For the successful development of new weapons in 1942, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the staff of the institute was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
For his great contribution to the creation of highly advanced land-based and sea-based combat missile systems, NIITP was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 17, 1975.
The State Research Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center" currently has a large number of highly qualified specialists, as well as a unique research and experimental base corresponding to the world level. The Keldysh Center employs 2 full members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Doctors of Science, 73 Candidates of Science. Correspondence postgraduate studies have been established and are successfully operating at the institute to increase the scientific potential of employees. In 2017, the postgraduate school received a certificate of state accreditation.
The dissertation council works in the State Scientific Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Keldysh Center", meetings of the scientific and technical council are held. Many leading specialists of the Institute participate in the activities of various Russian scientific and technical organizations.
All the achievements of the SSC FSUE “Keldysh Center” over 85 years are the result of the enormous creative activity of several generations of its employees (scientists, engineers, technicians, workers), the result of close interaction with our colleagues and partners in Russia and abroad, the result of enormous assistance from management of the State Corporation "Roscosmos".
short info
Russia's leading scientific organization for rocket engines and power plants. The main direction of activity is the research and development of scientific foundations and the creation of a scientific and technical reserve for rocket engine building and power plants; scientific and technical support, ensuring the reliable operation of operated rocket engines of rocket and space complexes; carrying out research, development and experimental work to search for fundamentally new solutions for the creation of products of rocket and space technology, the selection of materials and fuels based on the latest achievements of science and technology using high modern technologies.
It is the head organization of the rocket and space industry in the field of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.
On the basis of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Keldysh Center”, a “Center for the Application of Nanotechnologies in the Energy and Power Supply of Space Systems” was created, which also functions as a Center for Collective Use.
Founded (created)
The company was founded in 1933. He has awards: the Order of the Red Star (1942), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975). By the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated November 22, 2008, the enterprise was given the status of a state scientific center of the Russian Federation.
Work on priority areas and critical technologies for the development of science, technology and technology
Participates in the implementation of the priority areas "Industry of nanosystems", "Information and telecommunication systems", "Promising types of weapons, military and special equipment", "Rational environmental management", "Transport and space systems", "Energy efficiency, energy saving, nuclear energy" and sixteen critical technologies.
Innovation projects
Investigation of the permeability of oil reservoirs in order to extract oil from hard-to-reach wells. Development and commissioning of the Fourier spectrometer, which makes it possible to increase the reliability of weather forecasts. A technology has been developed and a site has been created for the manufacture of superthin nanoporous membranes and filter elements from them.
Research experimental base
The enterprise has a unique research and experimental base, powerful high-voltage power facilities, pilot production, which provide the necessary material for experimental research. The enterprise has developed and uses unique equipment and installations: a plasma generator, particle accelerators - electron beams (the power of a stationary beam is 1000 kW).
Patents, certificates
129 patents, 90 certificates.
Number of staff engaged in research and development
Basic departments, scientific schools
Training of scientific personnel at the basic department of thermal processes of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and correspondence branch postgraduate study of the enterprise. There are two scientific schools, one of which won the competition for state support.
Main partners
The enterprise cooperates with institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Space Research, Institute for High Temperatures, etc.), universities (Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State Technical University, MAI, etc.), State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation (CIAM, GosNIIAS, GIPH, etc.), scientific organizations (TsNIIMash, NIIKhimmash, NPO Energomash, etc.), scientific institutes of the Ministry of Defense.
International scientific and technical cooperation
The enterprise actively cooperates with foreign partners from the USA, France, China, India, Korea, Kazakhstan, etc. It participates in the international projects "International Space Station", "Russia-EU Dialogue on Cooperation in Space".