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The AFLoNext partners organised project-dedicated sessions during the CEAS conference. Two sessions were held on Wednesday 18 October 2017 and were dedicated to the AFLoNext WP2 “Active Flow Control On Airframe”. The third session was held on Thursday 19 October 2017 and was dedicated to the AFLoNext WP5 “Multifunctional Trailing Edge Concepts”.

AFLoNext partners during CEAS 2017 Air & Space Conference.

The titles of the presentations and the AFLoNext presenters are provided below:

• Overview on the Integrated Design and Testing of Flow Control at the Engine/Pylon Junction and Outer Wing (Philipp Schloesser, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH)
• Design of Active Flow Control at the Wing/Pylon/Engine Junction (Ales Prachar, VZLU)
• Active Flow Separation Control at the Outer Wing (Jean-Pierre Rosenblum, DASSAULT AVIATION SA)
• Design of a Pulsed Jet Actuator for Separation Control (Philipp Schloesser, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH)
• Design of a Synthetic Jet Actuator for Separation Control (Perez Weigel FRAUNHOFER)
• Testing of Active Flow Control Actuators at Harsh Environments (Ionut Brinza, INCAS)
• Sub-Scale Wind Tunnel Testing of Active Flow Control at the Outer Wing (Avraham Seifert, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY)
• Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Test of Active Flow Control at the Wing/Pylon/Engine Junction (Vitaly Soudakov, FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE THE CENTRAL AEROHYDRODYNAMIC INSTITUTE NAMED AFTER PROF. N.E. ZHUKOVSKY)
• Assessment of Active Flow Separation Control Technology on Full Aircraft Level (Stephen Rolston, AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED)
• A CFD Benchmark of Active Flow Control for Buffet Prevention (Fulvio Sator, ONERA)
• Design Optimization of Fluidic Gurneys as a Mean of Buffet Control (Vitaly Soudakov, FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE THE CENTRAL AEROHYDRODYNAMIC INSTITUTE NAMED AFTER PROF. N.E. ZHUKOVSKY)
• Wind tunnel tests of Fluidic Gurneys by Suction and Oscillitary Blowing Actuators (Avraham Seifert, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY)
• Evaluation of Active Flow Control for Buffet Prevention on Aircraft Level (Stephen Rolston, AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED)

Context:

AFLoNext WP2 targets local flow separation control at local areas of the wing to improve the low-speed performance. The first area addressed is the wing/pylon/engine junction, where the interruption of the leading edge high-lift device causes an early flow separation limiting the wing performance that is even more pronounced as engine diameters grow for the sake of fuel reduction. The second area is the wing tip region, as the implementation of more sophisticated wing tip shapes prevent the inclusion of a high-lift system.

AFLoNext WP5 addresses flow control in the cruise regime for stabilizing the shock-boundary layer interaction for buffet control.