TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef T1 - Reduction of aerodynamic drag (RaWid)-Status after the first year of the program T2 - New results in numerical and experimental fluid mechanics. - (Notes on numerical fluid mechanics ; 60) N2 - The technology programme “Reduction of aerodynamic drag (RaWid)” for high speed aerodynamics at Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus is sponsered by the German ministry for education, research and technology since July 1, 1995. Connected to this industrial programme are the cooperation programmes “MEGAFLOW” under leadership of the DLR and “Transition” by the DFG, and several contributions by DLR and universities. The programme is oriented towards technologies required for a MEGALINER which gains momentum by the ambitious plans for a new large Airbus A3XX. In the first year new technological steps were undertaken in theory, design and experiment. Some critical steps were verified by wing designs checked in wind tunnel tests. KW - Wind Tunnel KW - Aerodynamic Drag KW - Flight Test KW - Friction Drag Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-528-06960-0 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86573-1_2 SP - 7 EP - 14 PB - Vieweg CY - Braunschweig [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef A1 - Becker, K. ED - Ballmann, Josef T1 - Numerical solution of flow equations : an aircraft designer's view T2 - Nonlinear hyperbolic equations - theory, computation methods, and applications : proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems, Aachen, FRG, March 14 to 18, 1988. - (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics ; 24) N2 - Today the most accurate and cost effective industrial codes used in aircraft design are based on the full potential equation coupled with boundary layer equations. However, these are not capable to solve complicated three-dimensional problems of vortical flows and shocks. On the other hand Euler and Navier-Stokes codes are too expensive and not accurate enough for design purposes, especially in regard of drag and interference prediction. The reasons for these deficiencies are investigated and a way to overcome them by future developments is demonstrated. Y1 - 1989 SN - 3-528-08098-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87869-4_41 N1 - International Conference on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems <3, 1988, Aachen> SP - 403 EP - 412 PB - Vieweg CY - Braunschweig ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reimer, Lars A1 - Braun, Carsten A1 - Ballmann, Josef T1 - Computational study of the aeroelastic equilibrium configuration of a swept wind tunnel wing model in subsonic flow T2 - High performance computing in science and engineering '06. Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) 2006 / Wolfgang E. Nagel ... Eds. N2 - In the Collaborative Research Center SFB 401 at RWTH Aachen University, the numerical aeroelastic method SOFIA for direct numerical aeroelastic simulation is being progressively developed. Numerical results obtained by applying SOFIA were compared with measured data of static and dynamic aeroelastic wind tunnel tests for an elastic swept wing in subsonic flow. Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-540-36165-7 SP - 421 EP - 434 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reimer, Lars A1 - Braun, Carsten A1 - Wellmer, Georg A1 - Behr, Marek A1 - Ballmann, Josef T1 - Development of a modular method for computational aero-structural analysis of aircraft T2 - Summary of flow modulation and fluid-structure interaction findings. Results of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 401 at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 1997-2008 / ed.: Wolfgang Schröder. Notes on numerical fluid mechanics and multidisciplinary design. Vol. 109 Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-642-04087-0 SP - 205 EP - 238 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reimer, Lars A1 - Wellmer, Georg A1 - Braun, Carsten A1 - Ballmann, Josef T1 - Computational methods for aero-structural analysis and optimisation of aircrafts based on reduced-order structural models T2 - MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt - German initiatives for aerodynamic simulation and optimization in aircraft design. Results of the closing symposium of the MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt projects, Braunschweig, Germany, 23 - 24 May, 2007 / Norbert Kroll ... (Eds.) Notes on numerical fluid mechanics and multidisciplinary design. Vol. 107 N2 - In this part of the MEGADESIGN project, aeroelastic effects are introduced into the aerodynamic analysis of aircrafts by coupling DLR’s flow solvers TAU and FLOWer to a Timoshenko-beam solver. The emerging aeroelastic solvers and a method for the automatic identification of Timoshenko-beam models for wing-box structures were integrated into a simulation environment enabling the combined optimisation of aerodynamic wing shape and structure. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-642-04092-4 SP - 135 EP - 150 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wolff, Nino A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Bauer, Wolfgang A1 - Fiebig, Christopher A1 - Gerding, Patrick A1 - Parow-Souchon, Kai A1 - Pongs, Anna A1 - Reiffenrath, Matti A1 - Ziemann, Thomas T1 - Alternative application of solar sail technology T2 - Advances in solar sailing N2 - The development of Gossamer sail structures for solar sails contributes to a large field of future space applications like thin film solar generators, membrane antennas and drag sails. The focus of this paper is the development of a drag sail based on solar sail technology that could contribute to a reduction of space debris in low Earth orbits. The drag sail design and its connections to solar sail development, a first test on a sounding rocket, as well as the ongoing integration of the drag sail into a triple CubeSat is presented. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-642-34906-5 (Print) ; 978-3-642-34907-2 (E-Book) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23 SP - 351 EP - 365 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER -