Application of advanced computational fluid dynamics for high performance aircraft

• Grant number: 00/13768-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Partnership for Technological Innovation - PITE
• Start date: January 01, 2002
• End date: April 30, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
• Principal Investigator: João Luiz Filgueiras de Azevedo
• Grantee: João Luiz Filgueiras de Azevedo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE). Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial (DCTA). Ministério da Defesa (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Company: Empresa Brasileira Aeronáutica S/A (EMBRAER)
• City: São José dos Campos

Abstract

The aim of this project was the integration of innovative technologies for high performance aircraft by means of the creation of a nucleus for the mechanics of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The development of this project was to enable Embraer to acquire expertise in the area of CFD, enabling it to function in a similar manner to its competitors and to obtain productivity gains and technological innovation. At the present time, the market offers high performance computers with a competitive cost-benefit relationship. At the same time, the current maturity of advanced methods of CFD permits its incorporation in technological application. These factors, together with the high level of expertise in Brazilian research, could allow the convergence and the incorporation of latest generation knowledge, techniques and methods for the application of CFD in the development of high performance aircraft. The making available of state-of-the-art computational resources, currently non existent in the country, should also permit the continued development in the research and teaching institutions and promote the consolidation of parallel computing techniques, with positive impacts on scientific productivity in the area of the mechanics of computational fluids. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SILVA, ROBERTO G. A.; MELLO, OLYMPIO A. F.; AZEVEDO, JOAO LUIZ F.; CHEN, P. C.; LIU, D. D.. Investigation on Transonic Correction Methods for Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelastic Analyses. JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT, v. 45, n. 6, p. 1890-1903, NOV-DEC 2008. (00/13768-4, 04/16064-9)