NATO STO Lecture Series on Computational – Experimental Collaborations for Complex Analysis (AVT-416)

National and international collaborations, including NATO-sponsored efforts, have successfully advanced the understanding and solution of technology roadblocks in complex aerodynamics and aeromechanics of flight vehicles.

A broad spectrum of NATO AVT activities have produced new findings and best practices for the development of new vehicle designs, as well as the understanding of complex physics. These activities span configurations from powered-lift (rotary-wing and fixed-wing) vehicles in incompressible Mach regimes to high-speed transports and fighters in transonic and supersonic flight to advanced concepts at hypersonic speeds.

The efforts include new techniques, approaches, and best practices necessary to meet industry and military objectives for the incorporation of digital twins and increased reliance on computational design and analysis in their work flow.

A common characteristic of many of these efforts has been the collaboration between wind tunnel experts who obtain validation data and computational experts in high-fidelity fluid dynamics and aeromechanics who provide the ability to further explore concepts at full scales and/or with permutations. 

In addition to addressing specific technologies, a major challenge remains to educate experimentalists about what their computational colleagues need for these virtual experiments.  Conversely, computational experts need to understand the limitations of the physical experiments and costs associated with instrumentation and measurement techniques.

This Lecture Series aims to bring both communities – experimentalists and computational experts – closer together. It will describe the background, state of the art, limitations, and gaps for future development in both wind tunnel testing and CFD

A major focus will be a guidance on how to develop wind tunnel tests that meet current and future computational validation needs, while educating computational engineers on realistic expectations.  The lecture series will include salient topics such as scaling, unsteady aerodynamics, and will cover the entire spectrum from incompressible to hypersonic flow regimes.

The topics will include, but are not limited to:

• Introduction to Facility Testing and Ground Testing
• Introduction to Computational Methods
• Measurement Techniques: Capabilities, Limitations, Costs
• Defining the Computational and Facility/Ground Test Domains for Validation
• Experimental Scaling
• Modern Analysis Techniques
• Creating a Successful Computational Validation Campaign
• Comparing Computation and Experiment Data
• Beyond Validation for Computational-Experimental Collaborations
• Real-World Examples of Good/Bad Practices

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