Cenaero - EU Projects

EU Projects

Cenaero is currently involved in 19 running FP7 projects.
BOPACS	BOPACS	Boltless assembling Of Primary Aerospace Composite Structures	Detailed analysis of disbond stopping design features : - thermoplastic layer, - adhesive patterning concept Modelling of failure of a reference specimen using a damage to fracture transition approach with the help of the XFE method Study of the effect of process variability / effect of defects / effect of residual stress Manufacturing of D-level sample for reference configuration and one crack stopping feature
	CERFAC	Cost Effective Reinforcement of Fasteners Areas in Composites	Project coordinator, leader of two work packages Cost identification & modelling , performance assessment Modeling and simulation activities (design with low fidelity FE simulations - AJ, 3D simulations at coupon level - AJ, modeling of resistive heating of TP bonds - AJ, optimization of compression moulded patches - BS,CL) Manufacturing and machining (optimal drilling of fastener holes) of coupons incorporating new generation 3D-woven reinforcements
	CHATT	Cryogenic Hypersonic Advanced Tank Technologies	Trade-off studies for the design optimization of advanced multi-lobe cryogenic tanks based on high-fidelity CAE and preliminary 1D sizing tools. Leader of work package: Sloshing simulations.
E-BREAK	E-BREAK	Engine Breakthrough components and subsystems	Analysis of the different axial slot configurations Effect of the distorsion on one configuration with a casing treatment
	ERICKA	Engine Representative Internal Cooling Knowledge and Applications	Aero-thermal simulation and design optimization of HP and LP turbine cooling systems (in both stationary and rotating framework)
	ESPOSA	Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft	Aero-mechanical design of the BE2 engine centrifugal compressor (including inlet and diffuser) Unsteady aero-thermal simulations of the cooled turbine blades taking into account the inlet distortions coming from the combustor Aerodynamic design of the external nacelle - Aero-acoustic assessment of the wing/nacelle/pusher propeller configuration - Investigation of installation effects Aero-thermal design of the exhaust system
EVOLUTION	EVOLUTION	The Electric Vehicle revOLUTION enabled by advanced materials highly hybridized into lightweight components for easy integration and dismantling providing a reduced life cycle cost logic	- performing a preliminary design of the full side door demonstration - performing a detailed design analysis under various loading conditions after the above preliminary design will have been reviewed by USFD for manufacturing purposes
	H2IGCC	Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas	Thermal analysis of a high pressure turbine operated with H2-rich syngas (issued from the H2-IGCC project): estimating the thermal loads of film cooled vanes and blades by coupling high-fidelity tools.
HILDA	HILDA	High Integrity Low Distorsion Assembly	Development of a numerical model to predict material and thermal flow during friction stir welding of Dstrong6 steel Development of a thermo-mechanical cycle which will be used to compute microstructure evolution based on the dynamic recrystallization and phase transformation model
	IDIHOM	Industrialization of High Order Methods - A Top-Down Approach	Development of novel high-order schemes for the resolution of aerodynamic flows, aiming to provide high-resolution and predictive LES computations for industrial geometries.
	INSIST	Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology	Development and implementation of next generation design/simulation methods using the so-called IsoGeometric Analysis
	IPROD	Integrated Management of product heterogeous data	Optimization applied to human oriented tasks : Development of optimization techniques searching for an optimal planning of the tasks subject to specified constraints like time, costs, and/or resources
	LAPCAT II	Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies II	Engine-Airframe integration methodology: Minamo-COSAP coupling, optimization of the ATR cycle. Detailed design of Mach 5 vehicle: A2 vehicle structure definition and aero-elastic calculations.
	MAAXIMUS	More Affordable Aircraft structure through eXtended, Integrated, and Mature nUmerical Sizing	Development of a multi-scale parallel solution scheme which is based on the FETI-2LM iterative technique and improvement of domain decomposition methods in order to execute efficiently on distributed SMP machines. Demonstration of the capability of the developed methods by solving a number of large-scale non-linear benchmark problems.
	SARISTU	Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structure	Fuselage assembly integration: Sizing of lower panel frames (incl. cross beam). Analysis of the frames: strain prediction at each locations of strain measurement in the frames.
	TOICA	Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft	- Methods for multi-level analysis - state-of- the-art - Delivery of models library for use - automatic surrogate modeling approach.
ENOVAL	ENOVAL	Engine Module Validators	CENAERO will develop a new methodology to assess flutter stability analysis and apply it to the high speed booster.
HeatSculptor	HeatSculptor	Novel Electron Beam Surface Sculpting for Efficient Heat Exchange	- Design guidelines for initial surfaces available - Definition of the computational strategy and description of the computational chain - Optimized surfaces for scenarios proposed
	FiPS	Developing Hardware and Design Methodologies for Heterogeneous Low Power Field ProgrammableServers	The aim is to help to port and test our code on experimental parallel computer architectures based on non-CPU processors (programmable industrial processors such as FPGA, graphical (GPU), using dedicated programming languages and enviroments. Both of these (architectures and environments) are being developed during the project by the principal partners (all of them in informatics research centres). We were invited due to our presence in prace projects.
Cenaero is also currently involved in 1 running FP6 project.
	NICETRIP	Novel Innovative Competitive Effective Tilt Rotor Integrated Project	Shape optimisation of the engine inlet duct and the wing/fuselage integration/interaction
Past FP6 and FP7 projects in which Cenaero was involved. Cenaero also coordinated the DEEPWELD and the ADVICE projects:
	ADIGMA	CFD methods	Implementation and simplification of a discretization for the viscous terms. Comparative study between full quadrature & simplified implementation. Implementation of the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model.
	ADVICE	Structural Health Monitoring	Coordinator. VDC strategy, analysis and improvement of the structural integrity of the VDC unit. Structural analysis & prediction of the damage evolution in the structures, prediction of the damage signature & index, optimisation of the position of the VDCus, novelty detection, pattern recognition, “damage index” definition and calculation.
	CESAR	Small commercial aircrats	Aerodynamic design: Airfoil sections and 3D wing optimisation for multiple operating conditions. Small centrifugal compressor: optimisation of the air inlet system in order to ensure ultra compact design and high quality of airflow. Design concept integration & validation: participation in the development of an integrated simulation, design and multi-disciplinary optimisation environment.
	DATAFORM	Aerospace manufacturing	Multipoint forming technology assessment & target applications. Deformation mechanism of multipoint forming technology. Integrated design of the tooling prototype and development of CAD/CAE/CAT software - Integration of the developed adjustable multipoint tooling.
	DEEPWELD	FSW modeling	Management of the whole project aimed at developing a multi-physics multi-scale numerical tool for simulating the FSW process, to obtain accurate predictions of residual stresses, weld properties and tool loads. Coordination of the multi-physics tool development WP and development of the CSM/CFD coupling.
	DREAM	valiDation of Radical Engine Architecture systeMs	Aero-meca-acoustic optimization of a direct drive Contra-Rotating Open Rotor Aero-mechanical design optimization of a booster stage within
	ELUBSYS	Engine LUBrication SYStem technologies	Development of a high-resolution free-surface CFD code for the computation of the flow inside various components of the lubrication chain (pump, de-aerator, injector). In particular transient conditions during start-up and idling are envisaged. The main aim is to verify the new design parameters, such as larger pipe diameters, larger air-oil fraction.
	FAR WAKE	Aircraft wake turbulence	Hybrid RANS-LES calculations on the interaction of vortices and wakes. LES simulations of wake vortices in ground effect with and without cross-wind.
	FAST 20XX	Future High Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX (soon)	Trade-off studies for the shape and trajectory optimization of the supersonic alpha vehicle (issued from the LAPCAT project): minimizing the gross take-off weight and maximizing the time of flight during the ballistic phase.
	IMACPRO	Industrialization of Manufacturing Technologies for Composite Profiles for Aerospace Applications	Design of frames and beams. Development of design concepts for fastenerless barrel assembly, simulation of sample structures (cargo frame, profiles for fastenerless assembly, closed fuselage frame)
	LAPCAT	Critical propulsion technologies	Study on Variable Cycle Engine (VCE) - Turbine Based Combined Cycles (TBCC): detailed design and optimisation of the air-intake including a thermo-mechanical and dynamic optimisation of the air-intake geometry for the whole mission Contra-Rotating Compressor Study: multi-disciplinary (aerodynamic and mechanical) optimisation of the contra-rotating turbine
	MUSCA	Static failure- numerical methods	Improvement in pre-processing, load balancing and parallel data structuring of a parallel solver based on the FETI method for non-linear analysis of large aircraft components.
	NEWAC	Aircraft engines improvement	Tip flow control and advanced aero to improve the efficiency and the stall margin of the HPC: Identification and preliminary studies of innovative technologies. Aero-mechanical design of the HPC blades/endwalls based on 3D CFD multistage calculations with technological effects.
	PRO-HIPP	Manufacturing processes for hydraulic cylinders	Development of simulation tools based on the hierarchical FEM-XFEM approach for the fatigue life prediction of hydraulic cylinders and accumulators and to help designing microstructures of the materials used for these components. Development of a virtual manufacturing code for the improvement of the Laser welding process used for hydraulic cylinders and accumulators.
	SYNCOMECS	Design of aeronautical compliant mechanical systems	Optimisation of the cold drawing process in aluminium sheet forming: optimisation of the kinematics parameters of the machine tool, optimisation of the forming block geometry, minimisation of surface defects, application on industrial test-cases. Improvement of turbine blades design by means of inverse analysis.
	TATMO	Turbomachinery CFD - real geometry effects	Assessment of the impact of weld & roughness effects on the performance of highly loaded compressors through CFD simulations: Choice of the turbulent model; Impact of weld; Impact of flow injection/bleeding.
	TRIADE	Development of technology building blocks for structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautics	Design of frames and beams. Development of design concepts for fastenerless barrel assembly, simulation of sample structures (cargo frame, profiles for fastenerless assembly, closed fuselage frame).
	VERDI	New generation aircraft engine	Development of a multi-physics simulation tool for Electron Beam Welding process - application on titanium and nickel sub-components. Development of a multiscale methodology for the modelling of the machining process
	VIF-CA	Forging and forming processes	Design and validation of benchmarks for the numerical modelling of forging and material characterisation
	VITAL	Low-noise technologies for aircrafts	Advanced aerodynamics technologies WP of the Booster SP: Investigation of casing treatments effect on booster stability and to measure effectiveness of hub seals on leakage flows.
	VIVACE	Development of advanced capabilities for the aircraft and engine sectors	Participation to the European Cycle Program WP: adaptation and integration of Cenaero’s in-house optimisation software in the ECP simulation environment for the performance modelling and multidisciplinary optimisation of whole gas turbine engines; development and integration of zooming capabilities.