Abstract
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The QNET-CFD Thematic Network aims to improve the quality of industrial CFD calculations, and to increase the level of trust in the results obtained by CFD. The principal objective of the network is to collate and structure existing knowledge, and to facilitate the exchange of experience and know how across different industrial sectors.
The QNET-CFD Thematic Network has 44 partners from 8 EU member states, 1 EFTA member state, and 2 pre-accession states. The QNET-CFD Network is managed by the University of Brussels, with WS Atkins in the UK as assistant co-ordinator. The network is organised around 6 industrial sectors, and CFS Engineering is responsible for industrial sector External Aerodynamics.
In the second year of the project, the Industrial Application Challenges defined in the first year were reviewed using the guidelines of the QNET-CFD quality co-ordinator. CFS Engineering reviewed two Application Challenges, the RAE M2155 Wing proposed by DERA and CIRA, and the Oscillating Delta Wing proposed by the University of Surrey. Following the quality review, CFS Engineering completed the information on its two proposed Application Challenges (L1T2 multi element airfoil and AS28G Wing-Body-Pylon-Nacelle generic aircraft configuration). A second quality review was then held, and the results discussed at the QNET-CFD meeting in Brussels, where it was concluded that insufficient information was available for the L1T2 test case. Following this meeting, the data for the AS28G test case was collected, and prepared for insertion in the QNET-CFD Knowledge Base. Permission was obtained to use the CFD data from different groups, but until today permission to use the experimental data has not been granted yet.
As responsible for the Thematic Area 1, CFS Engineering contributed to the 2nd and 3rd QNET-CFD Bulletin, which were published in July 2001 and February 2002. QNET-CFD Bulletin 2 was devoted to the Thematic Area 1 External Aerodynamics, and CFS Engineering was responsible for collecting and editing the different contributions.
Two meetings were organised in 2001, the first Workshop and third Progress Meeting in Athens in May 2001, and the fourth Progress meeting at VUB in Brussels in November 2001.
CFS Engineering gave a presentation on Validation Activities in Aeronautics at the first QNET-CFD Workshop in Athens.
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