Objetivo
Industrial, economical and environmental interests are at stake in the research efforts concerning the optimisation of the shape of aircraft wings so to obtain low aerodynamic drag. For a computational method to be reliable as a design process, it must be based on a mathematical model, which provides an appropriate representation of the significant features of the flow, such as shock waves, boundary layers and laminar-to-turbulent transition. The total drag of an aircraft wing is mainly given by the sum of pressure or wave drag, related to the existence of shock waves, and viscous drag, whose magnitude depends on whether the flow on the wing is laminar or turbulent. Turbulent flow produces a much larger drag; thus important research efforts have been devoted to keeping the flow laminar over the largest possible portion of the wing surface, which when accomplished, translates directly to less pollution and reduced expenses. Two main objectives characterize this project. The first is to increase the fundamental understanding of spatial transient growth as a scenario for laminar/turbulent transition. Within the scope of this objective, the existing theory will be extended to account for three-dimensional, compressible, boundary-layer flow on either flat plates (in the fundamental studies) or curved surfaces (for the case of realistic applications). The second objective is to incorporate the newly developed model of spatial transient growth as a transition prediction method in shape optimisation in order to enable the design of slender bodies with low drag. Here, gradient based optimisation will be used and the gradients will be efficiently evaluated, despite the large number of degrees of freedom, using the adjoin of the governing equations. The efficiency is in particular important when aiming for industrial applications and increased European competitiveness.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- ciencias naturalesinformática y ciencias de la informaciónciencias de la computación
- ciencias naturalesciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexasciencias ambientalescontaminación
- ciencias naturalesmatemáticasmatemáticas purasgeometría
- ciencias naturalesciencias físicasópticafibra óptica
- ciencias naturalesmatemáticasmatemáticas aplicadasmodelo matemático
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Palabras clave
Convocatoria de propuestas
FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5
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Régimen de financiación
EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European FellowshipsCoordinador
FISCIANO
Italia