Edward M. Bennett
Director of Fluids Engineering

Dr. Bennett has been involved with Fluid Dynamics and the aero/hydrodynamic design of turbomachinery for the past twenty five years.  Initially, Ed served as a steam turbine and axial fan design engineer for Coppus Murray, where he designed steam turbine stages for a wide variety of sizes and services, as well as a series of ventilator fans.  He subsequently moved to CONMEC (now a division of GE Oil and Gas) where he designed multiple steam turbines, gas expanders, and centrifugal compressor stages.  Ed was also employed at Concepts NREC where he led the development of specialized software for turbomachinery CFD analysis and designed a variety of compressors and turbines.

In 1995, Ed founded ASC Turbo, a design house that combined the CFD software from Advanced Scientific Computing and specialized design software.  During this time, Ed worked on the development of BladeGen, a 3D turbomachinery blade geometry kernel (that is now part of the ANSYS software suite). In addition, Ed performed a large number of design projects including the starter turbine and vapor cycle compressor for the F-22 fighter, several biomechanical cardiac pumps, industrial pumps, compressors, fans, and turbines. During this time frame, Ed spent two years working in Europe designing the LOX rocket engine turbopump now used in the Vulcain Engine (Ariane 5) among other projects. Most recently, Ed served as Director of Turbopumps for Aerojet division of Gencorp, and developed the hydraulic design methodology that is used by that organization.

Today, Ed serves as Director of Fluids Engineering for Mechanical Solutions, Inc. where he oversees fluid dynamic design and analysis.  This work includes preliminary design and analysis, detailed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis, and troubleshooting, as well as validation testing.  Ed specializes in all types of incompressible and compressible turbomachinery, including blowers, compressors, fans, pumps, turbines, and related system components for industrial and aerospace applications. Ed and his group also perform external analysis, such as the evaluation of non-lethal projectiles.