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Aerodynamic Design of Transport Aircraft and the Growing Role of CFD

Wednesday 04 May 2016 - Wednesday 04 May 2016

The seminar is free, non-VKI participants are requested to confirm attendance at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Kurt Sermeus
Bombardier Aerospace
Montreal, QC, Canada


Biography of Dr. Sermeus

Upon joining the Advanced Aerodynamics department at Bombardier Aerospace in 2005 he became the lead-developer of Bombardier’s proprietary computational fluid dynamics simulation software. More recently he focusses as R&D specialist on high-lift design and icing aerodynamics. Prior to this he was aerodynamics engineer with Airbus Defence in Germany, where he worked on the Eurofighter continued development and on several research programmes. Dr. Sermeus graduated in electromechanical engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 1996 and obtained a second master degree in fluid dynamics at von Karman Institute in Belgium, where he was awarded the 1998 von Karman Prize for his studies on numerical algorithms. He obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2012 while working at Airbus Defence. Dr. Sermeus is part-time lecturer in aerodynamics at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

 

Abstract

CFD plays an increasingly important role in the development of modern day aircraft. Due to tremendous increases in computing power and continuous improvements in algorithm performance and modeling capabilities, high-fidelity Navier-Stokes simulations are now feasible in all phases of aircraft development, from concept evaluation to detailed design and support to flight testing. An overview will be presented of the aerodynamic design objectives and constraints involved in the engineering of transport aircraft, covering the challenges of transonic cruise flight as well as high-lift performance for landing and take-off. The use of CFD in each of these areas will be illustrated with industrial examples, including also some of the author’s projects.

Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Waterloosesteenweg 72, B-1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode, Main conference Room, 14:00