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AACID - Estimation of the noise and risk potential of city drones

The DLR project AACID (acoustic and aerodynamics for city drones) aims at providing means to estimate the acoustic emissions and the aerodynamic performance of multi-copters operated in close proximity to urban areas.

ADVENT - Lower energy consumption through innovative ventilation systems in long-range aircraft

In the Clean Sky 2 project ADVENT, the DLR Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology develops novel ventilation concepts in a cabin mock-up of a long-range aircraft and conducts studies using numerical simulations and experimental investigations.

ATEK Flight Experiment - Propulsion Technologies and Components of Launcher Stages

The flight experiment ATEK (Propulsion Technologies and Components of Launcher Stages) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.) consists of Health-Monitoring-Systems for critical launcher components and a hybrid payload structure. Also a MAPHEUS-8 payload consisting of several biological and material science experiments belongs to the ATEK flight experiment.

AeroGust - Aeroelastic Gust Modelling

AeroGust (Aeroelastic Gust Modelling) is a collaborative research project between industry and academia funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement number 636053.

AHRES/ATEK: Software Development for Hybrid Rocket Engine Design

As part of the projects AHRES (Advanced Hybrid Rocket Engine Simulation) and ATEK (Antriebs-TEchnologien für Kleinträger) the German Aerospace Center is developing software for the layout of an entire hybrid rocket engine including subsystems within 100 days. In addition, this tool enables the design of solid rocket engines. A designated test bench for these engines is used for validation purposes.

ELTON_SST - Estimation of Landing and Take-Off Noise of SuperSonic Transport

Since a few years the interest in supersonic travel is increasing. However, certification standards for supersonic civil aircraft have yet to be defined by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). The DLR-project ELTON_SST (Estimation of Landing and Take-Off Noise of SuperSonic Transport) was established to support with scientific data in order to evaluate the noise performance of potential supersonic civil aircraft.

EPIC - Europa Lander Plume Induced Contamination

EPIC - A better prediction of plume induced contamination on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing missions to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, which is believed to harbor an ocean of liquid water underneath its icy crust. One mission scenario involves placing a lander onto Europas surface to sample its composition. The aim of the EPIC project is to characterize the extent to which plume induced contamination and erosion affect representative surface materials.

FlexMEMS - Flexible sensor pad with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Microphones to measure pressure variations on aircraft hulls

In the FlexMEMS joint project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), the project partners are developing the software and hardware for a measurement concept that can be used to measure pressure fluctuations on the aircraft skin with little installation effort and significantly reduced influence on the boundary layer.

Go4Hybrid

The Go4Hybrid project aims to foster aeronautics RTD work in Europe by recognising merits and achievements of previous and existing EU projects in the field of turbulence research. Aiming at the mitigation of the “Grey Area” problem in hybrid RANS-LES methods and thus at improving the confidence in the use of turbulence resolving simulation methods, Go4Hybrid will allow for enhanced design processes in the aeronautical industry. Consequently, this will result in fewer design cycles, lower costs and reduced time-to-market of challenging future aircraft designs.

Hifi-TURB - High precision and fast calculation of relevant flow features

Within the EU program Horizon 2020 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the partners evolve in the project HiFi-TURB (High-Fidelity DNS/LES for Innovative Turbulence Models) a new generation of reliable anisotropy-resolving turbulence models, able to predict accurately separated and vortical flows for the European aeronautics industry to be used in RANS and Hybrid RANS-LES methods – forming the CFD backbone in industry.

HOMER - Holistic optical metrology for aero-elastic research

As part of the EU's Horizon 2020 funding program, DLR scientists are working with international partners on the HOMER project to develop advanced optical metrology techniques and methodologies for testing in (industrial) wind tunnels.

InFlyTec -Integrated wing design for innovative and hybrid technologies

Integrated wing design is becoming increasingly important in the development of new technologies for future transport aircraft. In the InFlyTec project, the project partners are therefore determining the optimization of the wing's stiffness distribution for passive load reduction as well as drag-reducing measures for optimizing the overall performance of transport aircraft.

KonSENS - Innovative software methods for flow simulations around virtual aircraft

Numerical simulation is one of the key technologies enabling a fully digital description of aircraft. Thus, the provision of multi-disciplinary simulation tools is an important element on the way towards a virtual product. Within the DLR-project KonSENS, the Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology evolves innovative software methods for flow simulations around virtual aircraft.

LNATRA - Retrofittable technologies for aircraft noise reduction

Whereas new development and market entry often takes decades for newly designed quieter aircraft, noisereducing modifications offer short or mediumterm prospects for change, and can take effect much more quickly. This is what makes the LNATRA project so important.

MEPHISTO - Militärische Forschung zu Verfahren und Technologien für den Gesamtentwurf von UAVs

Ziel des DLR-Projekts Mephisto ist die Entwicklung einer Gesamtentwurfsfähigkeit die sämtliche Disziplinen des Fluggeräteentwurfs umfasst und ein hohes Maß an Flexibilität bezüglich der konfigurativen Gestaltung vorhält.

NACOR - Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic design and evaluation of the RACER compound helicopter

As part of the European CleanSky2 research initiative Airbus Helicopters is developing the RACER compound helicopter demonstrator. The DLR-Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology and the french research establishment ONERA have now joined their skills in the NACOR core partner project to support Airbus Helicopters in the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic design of RACER.

NACOR Extended Laminarity- Aircraft configurations for the environmentally compatible aircraft of tomorrow

Together with the French research company ONERA, DLR has developed a novel concept for boundary layer laminarization by suction as part of the NACOR WP2.3 Extended Laminarity project funded by the European CleanSky2 research initiative. The project thus makes an important contribution to improving the environmental compatibility and economy of future commercial aircraft.

RETALT - European reusable launch systems for more sustainability in spaceflight

Within the EU program Horizon 2020 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the five partners from industry teamed up in the project RETALT (RETro propulsion Assisted Landing Technologies) to enhance the know-how in reusable rockets in Europe, which start upright and land upright after a successful mission.

RoDeO - Rotor Design und Optimierung

Bei der Auslegung von Windenergieanlagen müssen eine Vielzahl teils gegenläufiger Anforderungen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen gegeneinander abgewogen werden. Die gleichzeitige Betrachtung der verschiedenen Anforderungen, ein sogenannter multidisziplinärer Entwurf, bietet dabei den Vorteil, dass die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den einzelnen Disziplinen von Beginn an berücksichtigt werden...

SimBaCon - Simulation Based Certification

Before entering the market, all types of industrial products must go through a process of qualification or approval by government agencies in order to prove that the applicable safety and environmental regulations are met. The virtualization of as many product development and operation processes as possible in the computer, which is necessary for this purpose, is a central research topic in all areas of DLR. To bundle these activities, DLR has launched the cross-sectional project "Simulation Based Certification" (SimBaCon).

SynergIE - Investigation of distributed hybrid-electric propulsions on short-range aircrafts

In the DLR partner project SynergIE, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the scientists investigate the overall system of a hybrid-electric short-range aircraft for up to 100 passengers with distributed propulsion on the wing in order to investigate and quantify potential efficiency improvements.

UHBR2Noise - Cabin noise due to fuselage excitation

Ongoing research initiatives by the consortium leader Airbus funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) aim to enable research and development of future lightweight and acoustically optimized cabin structures by simulations on the ground, thereby reducing cost-intensive flight tests as much as possible. The subproject UHBR2Noise - DUR "Pressure and Fuselage Structure" by DLR is intended to supplement necessary, previously unavailable input information for cabin noise prediction.

UTOPIAE - Early stage researchers for aerospace systems of the future

UTOPIAE is a European research and training network looking at cutting edge methods bridging optimisation and uncertainty quantification applied to aerospace systems.

VicToria – Virtual Aircraft Technology Integration Platform

The development, testing and production of new aircraft and helicopters is associated with considerable temporal and financial risks due to the product and manufacturing complexity. In order to accelerate the introduction of innovative technologies for more economical, more environmentally friendly and safer air vehicles and to better control the technological risks involved, DLR’s guiding concept "The Virtual Product" (LK6) aims at virtualizing the design, development and manufacturing processes, including the definition of an appropriate validation strategy.