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Recent achievements in numerical simulation for aircraft power-plant configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

J. Reneaux*
Affiliation:
Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, Meudon, France
V. Brunet
Affiliation:
Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, Meudon, France
S. Esquieu
Affiliation:
Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, Meudon, France
M. Meunier
Affiliation:
Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, Meudon, France
S. Mouton
Affiliation:
Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, Meudon, France

Abstract

The engine/airframe integration design is one key differentiating factor for making efficient transport aircraft and this topic will become more important for future aircraft as the turbofan engine diameter is increased leading to a stronger engine-airframe interaction. Hopefully, the capabilities of advanced numerical simulations allow the involved complex phenomena to be taken into account and this is illustrated in this paper through several research studies: the use of the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations together with the drag extraction techniques to predict the drag, the simulation of unsteady complex interaction between the jet and the pylon with the zonal detached eddy simulation method, the pylon and nacelle design through multi disciplinary optimisation and the flow control technologies.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2013 

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