NEW YORK, May 15, 2008 – Budimir Rosic, Ph.D., a resident of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Mitsubishi senior research fellow and college lecturer at Girton College, University of Cambridge, will be honored by ASME. He is being recognized for a co-authored paper titled “The Control of Shroud Leakage Loss by Reducing Circumferential Mixing.” He will receive ASME’s Gas Turbine Award.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature of combustion gas turbines or gas turbines thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants. It will be presented to Rosic during the ASME TURBO EXPO 2008, which is being held in Berlin, Germany, June 9 through 13.
After receiving his first degree in engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, Rosic worked as a researcher at the university in the turbomachinery and power plants group within the mechanical engineering department. He was involved in research and consultancy of steam turbine related problems, and power plant monitoring and performance tests. He also worked on energy resource planning while promoting combined heat and power and cogeneration concepts. While working toward his master’s degree, which he earned at the University of Belgrade in 2000, Rosic developed a numerical methodology for the modeling and optimization of power plant thermal cycles under design and off design regimes.
In 2001 Rosic commenced his Ph.D. research at the Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Siemens Power Generation under the supervision of Dr. John Douglas Denton. He investigated experimentally and numerically the aerodynamics of low aspect ratio turbines and control of shroud leakage flows, and earned his Ph.D. in 2005.
At the Whittle Laboratory Rosic is currently working in close collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on improving the cooling and aerodynamics of new generation industrial gas turbines.
An ASME member since 2002, Rosic has been a member of the Society’s Turbomachinery Committee since 2004.
Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences. ASME develops codes and standards that enhance public safety, and provides lifelong learning and technical exchange opportunities benefiting the global engineering and technology community. ASME has more than 127,000 members worldwide.
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