Abstract

The predicted growth in air traffic over the coming years requires a drastic improvement in aircraft design methodologies in order to meet the goals, set by the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe, on the reduction of CO2 and NOx emissions.

Designing aircrafts with much lower emissions is thus a requirement for aircraft manufacturers. Our contribution is to develop methods and softwares for aerodynamic design optimization including laminar flow design and elastic structure effects. The prospect is to speed up the design process of low emissions aircrafts through accurate multidisciplinary design optimization.

This work is part of the research at the Swedish Defence Research Agency in aerodynamic shape optimization, flow control and aeroelasticity, which is essentially carried out within European projects such as NACRE (New Aircraft Concept Research, 6th Framework Programme).

Biography

Ingenieur Civil des Mines, France, 1994, Research engineer at the Atomic Energy Research agency, France, 1995-1999, PhD  in numerical analysis, Uppsala University, 2006,  “Numerical methods for aerodynamic shape optimization”, Works at the Swedish Defence Research Agency since 2001, previously FFA (the Swedish Aeronautics Research Institute until 2003).

Areas of interrest are optimization problems constrained by PDEs, modelling of shape deformations and reduced order models.