Rear Fuselage and Empennage Flow Investigation (REMFI)

Objective

It is known that business needs are placing an ever-increasing demand on the aeronautics industry to develop and manufacture aircraft at lower costs, with improved flight capabilities and a reduced impact on the environment. Hence, a primary objective for the aerospace industry is to offer products that not only meet the operating criteria but also significantly reduce the direct operating costs. Furthermore, research effort with respect to an improved understanding of the flow physics around fuselage / tail combinations remained limited, as investigations naturally concentrated on the wing and its interaction with the fuselage. However, a successful design approach towards the development of modern transport aircraft has to take the empennage as well. Thus, the improvements to be achieved by REMFI focus on three main aspects, the enhanced understanding of the tail flow physics, improved computational predictions for fuselage/tail design and analysis and improved experimental capabilities and measuring techniques for tail flows. This aims at providing means to: - Increase the empennage aerodynamic efficiency and reduce loads - Improve flight safety - improved empennage performance and weight for optimised gaps effects, including Reynolds number effects - Investigate sting mounting arrangement effects on empennage wind tunnel measurements - Enhance the current scaling methodologies to free-flight conditions - Reduce fuel burn (this has a positive effect on energy saving and reduction of emissions to the environment) - Novel design concepts for integrated fuselage / empennage designs with significant interaction between rear fuselage and belly fairing - Investigate novel flow control devices (speed brakes) on fuselage and vertical tail - Shorten the design cycle - Reduce the cost of the aerodynamic design of tail and fuselage - Reduce the maintenance costs

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aircraft
• natural sciences › physical sciences › classical mechanics › fluid mechanics › fluid dynamics
• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › geometry
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aeronautical engineering
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels

Programme(s)

• FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• AERO-1.3 - Improving aircraft safety and security

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-AERO-1
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

AIRBUS OPERATIONS SL

Address

Avenida John Lennon S/n
Getafe
Spain

Participants (15)

AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH

Germany

Address

Kreetslag 10
Hamburg

AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS

France

Address

Route De Bayonne 316
Toulouse

AIRCRAFT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION LIMITED

United Kingdom

Address

Manton Lane
Bedford

SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY

Sweden

Address

Ranhammarsvaegen 14
Stockholm

INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNICA AEROESPACIAL

Spain

Address

Carretera Ajalvir, Km. 4, 5
Torrejon De Ardoz

OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES

France

Address

Av De La Division Leclerc, 29
Chatillon

CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA

Spain

Address

Edifici C1, Campus Nord Upc, Gran Capitan S/n
Barcelona

EUROPEAN TRANSONIC WINDTUNNEL GMBH

Germany

Address

Ernst Mach Strasse
Koeln

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

Spain

Address

Avda De Ramiro De Maeztu 7 S/n
Madrid

KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN

Sweden

Address

Valhallavaegen 79
Stockholm

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN

Germany

Address

Strasse Des 17. Juni 135
Berlin

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CAROLO-WILHELMINA ZU BRAUNSCHWEIG

Germany

Address

Pockelsstrasse 14
Braunschweig

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

Address

Templergraben 55
Aachen

DASSAULT AVIATION S.A

France

Address

Rond-point Des Champs-elysees - Marcel Dassault 9
Paris

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT E.V

Germany

Address

Linder Hoehe
Koeln