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Trans National Access
An opportunity …
ESWIRP, via the « trans national access », will offer a unique occasion to research teams to have access to these facilities, and will allow them to realise some tests at new scales. The selection process will permit new players to be associated with experiments in large facilities.
The researchers are dealing with issues like:
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Transition criteria of laminar/turbulent flow; essential in the optimization
of flow control over high lift elements as well as obtaining minimum energy
consumption in land based vehicles,
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Issues of laminar and turbulent separation; essential for flight safety in
critical conditions, mainly landing approach in aeronautics, but also in
drag/energy consumption reduction in aerial as well as land based vehicles,
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Interaction of shear layers with ambient flows or between shear layers.
The aeronautical example would be in the interaction of jet engine exhaust
with the wake of a wing, which again is relevant both to the safety of flight
as well as energy consumption (CO2 production) like above,
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Generation of aero acoustic noise in the above phenomena.
The above topics and others of similar research activities are current and alive in most technical universities in Europe, where there are departments for Fluid Research or Aerodynamics. Within the TNA part of the work program, the researchers will be able to singly or by pooling their resources perform experimental research well beyond their regular capabilities.
Support offered under this proposal:
Like for routine types of testing the ESWIRP Consortium will provide prior to, during and after the testing phases the best possible support to help researchers define their test set-ups and realise their test objectives by advising them as to the most preferred model and instrumentation supports, data acquisition handling, reduction schemes and presentation methods, all under the supervision of a dedicated Project Manager.
In addition, the ESWIRP Consortium will provide logistical support to the researchers and their next of kin for the duration of the test. Beside technical and logistical support, the Consortium will offer scientific support by appointing a scientist from their organisation to help formulate the test plans and support the analysis of the test data. For test campaigns that will span more than one facility, the Consortium will appoint a supervisor.
If the researchers need a wind tunnel model for their project, that researchers can contact the consortium which will study with them the various possibilities. Within ESWIRP, no budget is foreseen for model realisation or adaptation.
Review procedure under this proposal:
The review process includes two stages: To evaluate the submitted proposals the Consortium will appoint a review team consisting of experts from the academic, research and industry community covering aeronautics and wind tunnel techniques. They will review proposals and mark them against a set of criteria. This pre-selection process shall result in one project per slot plus one spare project.
Subsequently, the submitting groups will be informed about the first evaluation result and the pre-selected groups will be requested to establish a more detailed project-plan as a basis for a presentation and discussion with the operators of the allocated wind tunnel. The project plan comprises test configurations, test plan and risk analysis. The final selection out of the two proposals for each entry will be made by a team consisting of the expert team and a representative of the ESWIRP consortium members with respect to the most promising proposals in terms of risk-benefit balance.
Planning of the actual testing activities for the selected projects is in 2013.
The submitted proposals will be graded according to the following criteria and the corresponding weights:
| Criterion for selection | Weight (%) |
| Technical intrinsic value and interest -innovative potential and sientific value of the community - Potential added value to the understanding of flow physics | 50 |
| Quality (and cohesion) of proposing team(s) - Number of users - Number of nationalities - European representativity | 15 |
| Importance and relevance to the upgrades to ESWIRP program | 15 |
| Adequacy with facility capabilities | 20 |
| 100% |
Workshops
The third workshop was organised 11-12 October, 2011 at Zwolle (The Netherlands) near the DNW LLF Facility at Marknesse.