‘Future of TsAGI-2021’ Competition Winners Announced

9 December 2021

Winners of the 3^rd ‘Future of TsAGI-2021’ Research-and-Technology Competition have been announced among the young specialists of TsAGI (a part of NRC “Zhukovsky Institute”). The award ceremony was devoted to the 103rd Anniversary of the Institute, and took place on December 1, during a celebration event housed by TsAGI’s Center for Science, Technology and Information.
The Competition was held in two nominations, Best Research and Best Innovative Project. At the first correspondence stage, the jury, which was comprised of top scientists from TsAGI, considered 11 young specialists’ projects. All these research initiatives have been approved.
The second stage included defending the research work. The contestants in Best Innovative Project Nomination did it at TsAGITech. The first prize was given to the Small Slotted Diffuser Wind Turbine Initiative by Dmitry Shcherbakov, Manager, Department for Innovative Infrastructure and Technologies, TsAGI; and by Yegor Novogorodtsev, Researcher, Department for Propulsion Aerodynamics, TsAGI. They spoke on creating a compact wind turbine; unlike similar turbines, this one has a profiled diffuser cowling. Computational studies have shown that the wind turbine operates satisfactorily at the wind speed starting from 3 m/s. The project is also presented to UMNIK, a program competition by Innovation Promotion Fund.
The jury awarded the second place to Sergey Zimogorov and Matvey Makarkin, young Specialists, Department for Measuring Technology and Metrology, TsAGI. Their work deals with developing an automatic control system for reference calibration facilities of aerodynamic strain-gauge. The third place went to Tatyana Apletneva, Engineer, Department for Aircraft and Rocketry Aerodynamics, TsAGI, who presented a development of small mobile surface-air monitoring RPAS.
The commission also gave extra prizes to an authors’ team from R&T Center, Research-and-Manufacturing Complex—Andrey Aleksandrov, Sergey Tereshin, and Aleksandr Sharom—for creating a firmware-monitoring computer appliance based on 1C: Enterprise technological platform.
The next step was to determine the Best Research winner nominees. This victory went to Vagan Manvelyan, Researcher, Department for Measuring Technology and Metrology, TsAGI. To perform integrated balance tests of aircraft propellers, he developed a uniquely-designed six-component rotating strain-gauge balance equipped with 12 special-shaped measuring beams. Apart from that, a concept design was created for the facility for static/dynamic calibration, and a telemetric system for wireless data transmission from the rotating strain-gauge balance. All this will bring to a new world level the tests of aircraft propellers, main/tail rotors of advanced helicopters, and will form a technological advance for developing rotorcraft-related areas in Russia.
The second place was given to Surface Heat Flow Identification Method by Thermometry Results at Multi-Dimensional Heat Transfer, a work by Ivan Shemetov, Junior Researcher, Department for Aerothermodynamics of Hypersonic Aircraft, Aerospace and Rocketry; TsAGI. The third prize went to a project by Ivan Amelyushkin and Vladimir Zhbanov, Scientists of the same department, which describes mathematical models, test results, numerical algorithms, and icing simulation software.
The Jury decided to give an extra prize to Anastasia Timofeeva, a Young Specialist, Department for Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Control Systems, TsAGI, for her project, Studying the algorithm for reducing mutual load of two drives simultaneously controlling mainline-aircraft air rudder.
‘The Institute has always been famous for the continuity of generations and the for the high potential of our young scientists. The “Future of TsAGI-2021” Competition has proved this again, revealing new talents in our research horizons. Indeed, the winners’ initiatives will be worthily supported. In particular, top works will receive quite a substantial monetary incentive, comparable in its amount to Zhukovsky Prize,’ said Aleksandr Medvedsky, Jury Chairman, First Deputy General Director, TsAGI; Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

The ‘Future of TsAGI’ Competition was held for the first time. TsAGI’s scientists and specialists under 35 can participate in it. Works are accepted in two nominations, Best Research and Best Innovative Project. The first is focused on graduate students and young scientists, aimed to stimulate the young specialists’ R&T activity. The second aims to increase the youngsters’ innovative activity, to identify the most advanced projects for their subsequent development and promotion, involving different funding sources. The papers can be presented either individually or collectively, by a team consisting of not more than three people.

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