Objective
Reducing noise from aircraft operations perceived by airport neighbouring communities is a major challenge facing the aircraft manufacturing industry, social society and the air transport business. By adopting a whole aircraft approach based on the latest developments in active / adaptive technologies, flow control techniques and advances in computational aero-acoustics applied to the major causes of noise at source, OPENAIR aims to deliver a step change in noise reduction, beyond the SILENCE(R) achievements. The workplan clearly supports realistic exploitation of promising design concepts driven by noise reduction and will result in the development and validation up to TRL 5 of “2nd Generation” technology solutions. OPENAIR’s multidisciplinary approach and composition is suited to the projected integrated, lightweight solutions. The process includes a down-selection in mid project. The selected technologies will be subjected to scaled rig tests, and the resulting data will support assessment of the noise reduction solutions on powerplant and airframe configurations across the current and future European range of products. The project exploitation plan will include detailed proposals for further demonstration in the Clean Sky JTI. The verification of the technologies applicability will be assured by addressing identified integration and environmental tradeoffs (performance, weight, emissions). In this way OPENAIR will develop solutions that can play a significant role, in continuity with the previous Generation 1 effort, enabling future products to meet the ACARE noise goals and improving current fleet noise levels through retrofitting. This capability is key to providing the flexibility needed to simultaneously accommodate market requirements in all segments, global traffic growth and environmental constraints, while addressing the global environmental research agenda of the EU.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/mechanical engineering/vehicle engineering/aerospace engineering/aircraft
Call for proposal
FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
75015 Paris
France
Participants (49)
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02044 VTT Espoo
600302 Bacau
21129 Hamburg
BS34 7PA Bristol
76700 Gonfreville L Orcher
117036 Moscow
75013 Paris
11517 Cairo
94800 Villejuif
00187 Roma
91895 Orsay
81043 Capua
67346 Speyer
061126 Bucharest 6
72000 Le Mans
75008 Paris
51147 Koln
1015 Lausanne
82024 Taufkirchen
1435 Mont Saint Guibert
B90 8BG Solihull
16675 Glyfada Athina
48170 Zamudio-vizcaya
125412 Moscow
100 44 Stockholm
78140 Velizy-villacoublay
51 116 Wroclaw
64010 Ancarano
1059CM Amsterdam
91120 Palaiseau
GU14 0LX Farnborough
15827 Blankenfelde-mahlow
N1 9FX London
BT3 9DZ Belfast
33185 Le Haillan
140180 Zhukovsky
41296 Goeteborg
SW7 2AZ London
265 04 Rio Patras
75794 Paris
SO17 1BJ Southampton
46181 Trollhaettan
02150 Espoo
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28040 Madrid
00154 Roma
CB2 1TN Cambridge
31060 Toulouse
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33187 Le Haillan Cedex
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78142 Velizy