Project description
Reducing fuel consumption with rear-mounted engines
Boundary layer ingestion (BLI) is a promising technology under investigation that could help reduce aircraft fuel burn. With BLI, aircraft engines will be located near the rear of the aircraft so that air flowing over the aircraft body becomes part of the mix of air going into the engine and is then accelerated out the back. However, determining these engines’ actual performance experimentally is challenging. The EU-funded SUBLIME project is developing a flexible and robust experimental set-up to establish dependencies amongst the propulsor shape/position, the fan inlet distortion pattern and the corresponding power savings. The project will conduct wind tunnel experiments supported by high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations to predict the full-scale behaviour of the aircraft architectures suitable for appropriate propulsor installation.
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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35122 Padova
Italy
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35137 Padova Pd
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
412 96 Goteborg
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MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
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MK41 7PF Bedford
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