The main objective of this R&D activity consists of the development of a computer simulation tool for the design and analysis of combustion systems to achieve really reduced computational efforts and development costs. Due to the high costs of the experiments, time consuming computer simulation (CFD) of combustion system represents the main investigation activities to select design quantities and architectures to be tested. The expected strong decrease in CFD effort will allow testing a large number of designs that show an improvement of fuel consumption and emission levels.

This objective will be pursued by the following intermediate objectives: development of model-experiments data base on turbulence and chemical kinetics, development of Neural Models for turbulence and chemical kinetics with the aid of data bases, integration of Neural Models into CFD tools for fast computer simulation, development of demonstrators to prove gain in computational effort and flexibility.