THE SZEWALSKI
INSTITUTE OF FLUID-FLOW MACHINERY
POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

The building of the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery in Gdańsk

The Institute has been founded in 1956 (with its first organisational structures in 1953). It was destined to conduct fundamental research in the area of principles of operation, design, construction and developemnt of machinery for energy conversion in flows. Presently, the investigations are being carried out in the following fields: fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, thermodynamics and heat transfer, plasma physics, laser technique, machine mechanics, tribology and diagnostics of power sector machinery.
In 1998 The Institute was employing 130 people including 77 scientists. The Institute is authorised to award the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Sciences (habilitation)in the field of mechanics, construction and exploitation of machinery.

In its structure the Institute has four departments divided further into 18 scientific groups.
Apart from the fundamental research, the Institute offers its services in the area of practical engineering applications such as: turbines, pumps and hydrokinetic couplings, ventillators, marine propellers, solar collectors; their design, calculation and technical expertise; development of unique equipment and apparatus.

The Institute has also its own Publishing House named IFFM Publishers.

The Institute gathers also external institutions, which run their activity at the Institute, such as:

• Science and Technology Foundation
• Implaser
• Section of Thermodynamics at the Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion PASci
• Subsection of Multiphase Flows of the Committee of Mechanics PASci