From October 26th to 28th, the 2018 annual seminar in fluid machinenry of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, which also called National Natural Science Foundation Project Progress Exchange Meeting, was successfully held in Xi'an.

The representatives of Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology were invited to participate in the conference. More than 630 experts, scholars and graduate students from 85 research institutes participated in the conference. Researcher Shi Yixiang, who came from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Engineering and Materials Engineering Division III, introduced the review and funding of the 2017 National Natural Science Foundation of China. Prof. Li Qiushi of Beijing Aerospace University, Gu Chunwei, the chief designer of China United Heavy Duty Gas Turbine Technology Company, and Academician Xu Jianzhong of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences respectively gave a special invitation report. The conference also set up 32 sub-meeting venues, 2 fund progress exchange report venues and 1 fund progress exchange exhibition board venue. A total of 381 academic reports and 51 exhibition boards were exchanged with topics such as centrifugal/axial flow turbine compressors, wind and wind turbines, water pumps and hydrodynamics, numerical simulation methods and technology, experimental research, bionics and noise and so on.

The successful holding of this conference promotes the exchange and cooperation in the field of thermal aerodynamics and fluid mechanics research in China, which enabled domestic counterparts to have an opportunity to discuss development strategies in the field of engineering thermophysics. It also strengthens basic research, cultivates innovative talents, promotes the development of fluid mechanics and heat engine aerodynamics in China's engineering thermophysics discipline, and better serves the national economy and social development.