Projects

The ATTILA project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/863418/it) of the Clean Sky 2 program is aimed at the design, manufacture, and testing of an advanced testbed for aeroelastic wind tunnel testing of tiltrotor aircraft. The design process, coupled with test iterations, is supported by detailed structural and aeroelastic simulations using a range of complementary codes. (Project website↗)

Substantial contributions to aeroelastic simulations of ATTILA, in support of the design of the wind-tunnel model, were carried out with the coupled code DUST-MBDyn.

The EU-funded FORMOSA project, concluded in 2023, (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/885971) aimed to develop innovative wing control surfaces concepts for the Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR) tiltrotor aircraft demonstrator, developed within the EU Clean Sky 2 program. (Project website)

During the project lead by Politecnico di Milano, it was proposed a new methodology for the preliminary design and optimization of the flaperon control surface of the NGCTR, through the coupled DUST-MBDyn aeroelastic tool.

The EU-funded HORIZON 2020 – MONNALISA project, concluded in 2023, (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/10100825) has developed and validated a novel method to predict the non-linear aerodynamic properties of lifting surfaces with controls, leveraging a high-resolution database of relevant design parameters. (Project website)

The aerodynamic database efficiently mix highly accurate experimental results with state-of-the-art, high-fidelity numerical simulations and mid-fidelity simulations obtained with DUST.

The GARTEUR AG-25 project, concluded in 2023, was aimed to the study of rotor-rotor and rotor-wake interactions. Extensive wind-tunnel test campaigns were performed by POLIMI and the other partners, and the resulting data allowed to test and compare several aerodynamic codes, including DUST; the aeroelastic capabilities of DUST-MBDyn proved fundamental in reproducing the experimental results.

This research project investigates noise radiation and propagation (installation effect) of multirotor systems in steady hover and forward flight. POLIMI/DAER is contributing with wind tunnel experiments as well as with numerical simulations considering both the high-fidelity approach and the mid-fidelity prediction provided by DUST. (Project website)