2. 1. Welcome 2. Overview of this week Tue, 11 Oct. Wed, 12 Oct.
Thu, 13 Oct.
Fri, 14 Oct.
8th
TANGO Progress Meeting
Workshop on Passive Noise Control
Outreach activity (dance)
Lunch
Outreach activity (interviews)
Dinner
Fun activity

3. 3. Report on recent developments
3.1. European Commission
We have a new project officer: Dr Szymon Sroda
(since sometime between April and July 2016)
3.2. Consortium agreement
Keele has issued the final version; most partners have signed.
We are still waiting for signatures from:
IIT Madras
IfTA
Sontech
Sorama
Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse
Deutsches Museum

4. 3.3. Conferences
ICSV 23 in Athens, 10 – 14 July 2016
Structured session “Thermoacoustics and orifice acoustics”
14 papers by TANGO fellows
All papers are open access
Jonathan received the Sir James Lighthill Award for 2nd best paper in the ICSV23 Proceedings
TUM Symposium in Munich, 30 May – 2 June 2016
Thermoacoustic instabilities in gas turbines and rocket engines: Industry meets academia
3 papers by TANGO fellows: Aswathy, Dima, Driek
22nd AIAA/CEAS in Lyon, 30 May – 1 June 2016
3 papers by TANGO fellows: Wei, Luck, Jonathan

5. ASME Turbo Expo in Seoul, 13 - 17 June 2016
2 papers by TANGO fellows: Lin, Driek
Combura ’16 in Soesterberg, NL, 5 – 6 October 2016
1 paper by TANGO fellow: Naseh
GPP Forum in Zurich, Switzerland, 16 – 18 January 2017
2 papers by TANGO fellows: Dima, Driek
ICSV 24 in London, 23 – 27 July 2017
Structured session on
“Thermoacoustics research in a gender-balanced setting”
All thermoacoustics researchers in TANGO will receive an invitation

6. 3.4. Journal Publications
JASA paper by Muttalip et al
“The influence of edge geometry on end correction coefficients in micro-perforated plates”
status: published December 2015
JSV paper by Muttalip et al “Non-linear acoustic transfer impedance of
micro-perforated plates with circular orifices”
status: published March 2016
CnF paper by Lin et al
“Propagation and generation of acoustic and entropy
waves across a moving flame front”
status: published March 2016

7. JFM paper by Alessandra and Maria
“A Green's function approach to the rapid prediction of thermoacoustic instabilities in combustors”
status: published May 2016
JSV paper by Luck et al “Theoretical study of the viscothermal effect on the propagation of fundamental and higher-order acoustic modes in rectangular ducts with uniform mean flow”
status: under review?
JSV paper by Jonathan et al “Influence of vortex disruption on the nonlinear acoustic
response of orifices”
status: under review?

8. CTM paper by Dima et al
“Three-step approach for prediction of limit cycle pressure
oscillations in combustion chambers of gas turbines”
status: under review?
IJSCD paper by Aswathy and Maria
“Passive instability control by a heat exchanger in a combustor with nonuniform temperature”
status: under review
IJSCD paper by Dima et al
“Two-step approach for pressure oscillations prediction in gas turbine combustion chambers”
status: under review

9. CnF paper by Nalini
“Analytic description of intrinsic flame instabilities in a 1-d resonator”
status: under review
Any others?

10. 3.5. TANGO website
On-going updates of the following pages:
News and Events
Publications
Planned Publications in Member section
Please provide info!
Please provide preprints!
Updates to come soon to the following pages:
Workshops page
Outreach page
Media Gallery
Meeting agendas/minutes in Member section
Workshop presentations in Member section
Fellows’ presentations in Member section

11. 4. Secondments and secondment reports
reports on:
Fellow
Secondment
host
Time period
Status
Alessandra
IIT Madras
05 – 13/11/2013
completed
Ansaldo
02/02 – 07/04/2015
Muttalip
KTH
26/09 – 10/10/2013
Siemens/LMS
16 – 27/11/2015
Dmytro
Keele
22 – 27/09/2014
TUM
03/11/2014 – 30/01/2015
Lin
22 – 26/09/2014
Bekaert
15 – 28/03/2015
Nalini
19/10/2014 – 20/01/2015
Wei
02/03 – 01/05/2015
autumn 2016 ?

12. Fellow Secondment host Time period Status Aswathy Bekaert
01 – 24/06/2015
completed
KTH
12/10 – 11/12/2016
04 – 22/04/2016
Naseh
TUM
01/ /03/2016
Driek
Ansaldo
18 – 29/07/2016
Luck
LAUM
10 – 31/01/2015
DLR Berlin
01/11/2015 – 31/03/2016
Jonathan
27/04 – 13/06/2015
Alp
University of Cambridge
04 – 29/05/2015
Nitin
01/05 – 27/07/2016
Javier
Keele
05 – 16/10/2015
02 – 13/05/2016

13. 5. Update on departed fellows
Alessandra has completed her fellowship;
has 1-year research position at University of Pisa, Italy
Lin has completed her fellowship;
submitted her PhD thesis on 19 September 2016
now works at a company in Augsburg near Munich, Germany
Javier left TANGO on 5 August 2016;
he obtained a PhD position at MIT, USA
Nalini changed supervisor on 21 April 2016;
he completed his fellowship on 31 August 2016
New TANGO fellow
Sreenath M G has a 4-month ER position at Keele,
1 July – 31 October 2016

14. Tea/coffee break

15. 10-minute Presentations by
Dima
Naseh
Driek
Jonathan
Luck
Wei
Muttalip
Discussions in small groups

16. Place: Mykene, Munstraat 44
Dinner
Time: 19:30
Place: Mykene, Munstraat 44

17. 10-minute Presentations via skype by
Alp
Aswathy
Sreenath
Nitin

18. Tea/coffee break

19. 7. Outreach activity (video) on Friday
Part 1: Introduction by Maria
Part 2: Dance explaining thermoacoustic instability
combustor wall
gas particle carrying sound wave
flame segment
coloured sweat shirts will be provided
please wear dark trousers
Part 3: Interviews of fellows

20. 8. Publications and review papers
Review paper on Aeroacoustics in TANGO
to be spearheaded by Ines, with support from: Hans
Review paper on Thermoacoustics in TANGO
to be spearheaded by Maria, with support from:
Joàn
Giovanni

21. 9. Preparations for POLKA
advice from:
Research Office of TU Eindhoven – thanks to Ines
BayFOR (agency supporting Bavarian universities with EU grant applications) – thanks to Wolfgang
changes:
find replacement for Gunilla, without affecting the gender balance and academic/industrial balance
improve exploitation and outreach
deadline: 10 January 2017

22. Group photograph
Lunch