TY - JOUR A1 - Mertens, Josef A1 - Klevenhusen, K. D. A1 - Jakob, H. T1 - Accurate Transonic Wave Drag Prediction Using Simple Physical Models JF - AIAA-Journal. 25 (1987), H. 6 Y1 - 1987 SN - 0001-1452 SP - 799 EP - 805 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mertens, Josef A1 - Henke, Rolf T1 - Adaptive technologies for future civil air transport JF - Air & Space Europe. 3 (2001), H. 3-4 Y1 - 2001 SN - 1247-5793 SP - 80 EP - 82 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Aerodynamic multi point design challenge T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport.- (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - In the chapter “Son of Concorde, a Technology Challenge” one of the new challenges for a Supersonic Commercial Transport (SCT) is multi-point design for the four main design points: - supersonic cruise - transonic cruise - take-off and landing - transonic acceleration. KW - Drag Reduction KW - Pitching Moment KW - Leading Edge Vortex KW - Wave Drag KW - Variable Geometry Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_4 SP - 53 EP - 67 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mertens, Josef A1 - Velden, Alexander van der A1 - Kelm, Roland A1 - Kokan, David T1 - Application of MDO to large subsonic transport aircraft Y1 - 2000 N1 - Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit <38, 2000, Reno, NV> ; (AIAA Paper ; 00-0844) PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics CY - Reston, Va. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Certification of supersonic civil transports T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport. - (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - Since certification of Concorde new certification standards were introduced including many new regulations to improve flight safety. Most of these standards are to prevent severe accidents in the future which happened in the past (here: after Concorde’s certification). A new SCT has to fulfill these standards, although Concorde had none of these accidents. But accidents - although they sometimes occurred only for a specific aircraft type - have to be avoided for any (new) aircraft. Because of existing aircraft without typical accident types having demonstrated their reliability, they are allowed to go on based on their old certification; although sometimes new rules prevent accident types which are not connected to specific aircraft types - like e.g. evacuation rules. Anyway, Concorde is allowed to fly based on its old certification, and hopefully in the future will fly as safely as in the past. But a new SCT has to fulfill updated rules like any other aircraft, and it has to be “just another aircraft” [75]. KW - Noise Exposure KW - Evacuation Rule KW - Severe Accident KW - Certification Rule KW - Thermal Fatigue Testing Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_6 SP - 97 EP - 103 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mertens, Josef T1 - Laminar flow for supersonic transports JF - Proceedings : March 16 - 18, 1992, Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany / organized jointly by: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. ... [Programme committee J. Szodruch ...] Y1 - 1992 SN - 3-922010-73-3 N1 - DGLR-Bericht ; 92,06 SP - 319 EP - 323 PB - DGLR CY - Bonn ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef T1 - Laminar leading edges: manufacturing, contamination, and operational aspects - results from the German RaWid programme N2 - RaWid was the German national technology programme on transonic aerodynamics and supporting technologies, lasting from 1995 to 1998. One of the main topics was laminar wing development. Besides aerodynamic design work, many operational aspects were investigated. A manufacturing concept was developed to be applied to operational laminar wings and empennages. It was built in a large scale manufacturing demonstrator with the aerodynamic shape of a 1,5 m section of the A320 fin nose. Tolerances in shape and roughness fulfilled all requirements. The construction can easily be adapted to varying stiffness and strength requirements. Weight and manufacturing costs are comparable to common nose designs. The mock-up to be designed in ALTTA is based on this manufacturing principle. Another critical point is contamination of suction surfaces. Several tests were performed to investigate perforated titanium suction surfaces at realistic operational conditions: - a one year flight test with a suction plate in the stagnation area of the Airbus "Beluga" - a one year test of several suction plates in a ground test near the airport - a one year test of a working suction ground test installation at all weather conditions. No critical results were found. There is no long term suction degradation visible. Icing conditions and ground de-icing fluids used on airports did not pose severe problems. Some problems detected require only respection of weak design constraints. KW - Laminare Strömung KW - Ansaugsystem KW - Profilumströmung KW - Laminarprofil KW - RaWid KW - hybrid laminar flow KW - suction systems KW - suction structure KW - contamination KW - operational aspects Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - PAT A1 - Mertens, Josef A1 - Lajain, Henri T1 - Method of fabricating leading edge nose structures of aerodynamic surfaces : patent no.: US 6,415,510 B2 ; date of patent: Jul. 9, 2002 Y1 - 2002 N1 - Volltext auch in der Datenbank http://publikationen.dpma.de/ zu finden unter der Nummer US000006415510B2 PB - United States Patent and Trademark Office CY - [Washington, DC] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mertens, Josef T1 - Multi point design challenges for supersonic transports JF - Fluid dynamics research on supersonic aircraft : this report is a compilation of the edited proceedings of the special course on "Fluid dynamics research on supersonic aircraft" held at the Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium, 25-29 May 1998 Y1 - 1998 SN - 92-837-1007-X SP - 8.1 EP - 8.12 PB - Research and Technology Organization CY - Neuilly-sur-Seine ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef T1 - Next steps envisaged to improve wing performance of commercial aircraft T2 - Aerodynamic drag reduction technologies : proceedings of the CEAS/DragNet European Drag Reduction Conference, 19–21 June 2000, Potsdam, Germany. - (Notes on numerical fluid mechanics ; 76) Y1 - 2001 SN - 3-540-41911-X (Print) SN - 978-3-540-45359-8 (Elektronisch) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45359-8_26 SP - 246 EP - 255 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER -