UK Applied Aerodynamics Consortium

UKAA Conference Loughborough 5th/6th April 2006



Delegate list

Day 1 (5th April 2006)

12:30 Lunch in Barrow Assembly
14:00 Welcome — Ken Badcock
14:05 Session on Helicopter Work
Chairman — Ken Badcock
14:05 Mark Potsdam US Army Aeroflight dynamics, NASA Ames Research Center Dynamic Rotorcraft Simulations Using High Performance Computing
14:35 C.B.Allen (Bristol) Parallel Rotor Simulation Tools [pdf]
15:00 G.N.Barakos (Liverpool) Development of CFD Capability for Full Helicopter Engineering Analysis [pdf]
15:20 A. Filippone (Manchester) Accurate Drag Prediction of Helicopter Airframe with High-Performance Computing [pdf]
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Aero Engines Work
Chairman — Leigh Lapworth
16:00 Stan Posey (SGI) Workflow Considerations for CFD Simulation in an HPC Linux Environment [pdf]
16:30 Luca Di Mare (Imperial) Effect of modelling level on gas-turbine engine aero-elastic predictions
16:55 Nick Hills (Surrey) Full turbine simulation [pdf]
17:20 Q.Li (Loughborough) Large Eddy Simulation for Vertical Landing [pdf]
17:45 G.Richardson (Cambridge) Moving Mesh CFD Simulation applied to Harrier VSTOL aircraft for Hot-Gas Ingestion Control Analysis [pdf]
18:10 Z.Sun (Surrey) Simulation of Buoyancy-Affected Convection in Rotating Cavities [pdf]
18:35 Close
19:30 Dinner in Cayley Dining Room


Day 2 (6th April 2006)

09:30 Fixed Wing Work
Chairman — Mike Henshaw
09:30 R. Cummings (USAF Academy) Experiences in Predicting Massively Separated Flows: Taking advantage of Detached-Eddy Simulation [pdf]
10:00 K.J.Badcock (Liverpool) LES and DES simulation of high speed cavity flows [pdf]
10:25 N.Qin (Sheffield) Adjoint based aerodynamic optimisation of a BWB shape with shock control bumps [pdf]
10:45 O.Hassan (Swansea) Unsteady Flow Simulation With Moving Boundaries [pdf]
11:05 Coffee Break
11:30 Future Plans 1: Summary of Consortium and Future Opportunities from Computing Developments, organised and chaired by David Emerson (Daresbury Laboratory)
11:30 Historical Perspective on Aerodynamics and Supercomputing – David Emerson [pdf]
11:50 Procurement plans for future academic HPC facilities - Christina Guindy (EPSRC) [pdf]
12:10 Trends in supercomputer hardware – Mike Ashworth [pdf]
12:30 Lunch in the Linford Restaurant
13:45 Future Plans 2: Aerodynamics National Advisory Committee (ANAC) chaired by Tony Cross (BAE SYSTEMS)
presentations from the ANAC sub-committees on national priorities and strategy for aerodynamics
Overview A.G.T. Cross (BAE SYSTEMS)
Weapons Aerodynamics N. Taylor (MBDA)
Propulsion Aerodynamics L.Lapworth (Rolls-Royce)
Configuration Aerodynamics A.Haddrell (Airbus)
Fundamental Aerodynamics C. J. Atkin (QinetiQ)
Experimental Facilities Aerodynamics C.Burke (ARA)
Hydrodynamics M. Renilson
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Panel Discussion on Future UKAA consortium – shape; themes.
Chaired by Nick Hills (PI for follow-on proposal)
16:30 Close