Klaus Brun

SwRI

Dr. Klaus Brun is the Director over the Machinery Program in the Fluids and Machinery Department at Southwest Research Institute. His research interests are in the areas of turbomachinery aerothermal fluid dynamics, process system analysis, energy management, advanced thermo-dynamic cycles, instrumentation and measurement, and combustion technology. He is widely experienced in performance prediction, off-design function, degradation, uncertainty diagnostics, and root-cause failure analysis of gas turbines, combined-cycle power plants, centrifugal compressors, steam turbines, and pumps. Dr. Brun is the inventor of the Single Wheel Radial Flow Gas Turbine, the Semi-Active Plate Valve, the Planetary Gear Mounted Auxiliary Power Turbine, and the Compressor Speed-Pulsation Controller. He has authored over 60 papers on turbomachinery, given numerous invited technical lectures and tutorials, and published a textbook on Gas Turbine Theory. Dr. Brun obtained his Ph.D. and Master’s Degree at the University of Virginia.