Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering

Reshaping the future of aircraft design

2^nd International Conference on Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics

October 19-20, 2017 | Rome, Italy

Emiliano Costa

RINA Consulting, Rome, Italy

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Appl Mech Eng

Abstract:

The RBF4AERO project is properly conceived to tackle all the aspects related to aircraft numerical design and optimization by making the CFD model parametric through an innovative shape optimization tool based on a high-performance meshless morphing technique. This technique is founded on Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) theoretical approach which offers a number of distinct advantages over the more traditional optimization approaches. This new optimization methodology will guarantee very fast and highly detailed CFD optimization analyses such to significantly reduce costs of optimization of aircraft aerodynamics without losing accuracy or domain extent. The final goal of the Project is the development of the RBF4AERO Benchmark Technology, namely a dedicated numerical platform and strategy capable to allow aeronautical design engineers to build up the novel optimization environment by using their own numerical models and computing platforms, and achieve the results of multi-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization studies in a dramatically shorter time with respect to current practices, and with no need to face with typical limiting trade-off constraints. Besides, the RBF4AERO numerical platform enables to solve other relevant aircraft design studies such as FSI and icing growth in an original fashion, and proposes a challenging CFD optimization technique that foresees the adjoint-morphing coupling. Relevant impact is then expected in the ever-growing technological demand posed by aeronautical manufacturers in relation to the performance and reliability of aircrafts constituting components. The RBF4AERO Project is funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/20072013) under GA n° 605396.

Biography :

Dr. Emiliano Costa graduated in Mechanical Engineering and received PhD in Energy and Environment Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He worked as researcher in the HPC centre CINECA, as CFD designer in the University spin-off SCIRE and as CAE expert consultant for different private firms. Since October 2007 he has been working for RINA Consulting (formerly D’Appolonia) and he is currently member of the “Industrial design & CAE” team. In the aviation sector, he used to be the coordinator of the EU FP7 project RBF4AERO (www.rbf4aero.eu) and is the Project Investigator of the Experiment n. 906 of Fortissimo 2 (https://www.fortissimo-project.eu/). He is active in the scientific community as author of papers and reviewer for specialized journals. The main topics which he has worked in the last years are blast, FSI and the application of mesh morphing techniques in simulation-based design and optimization.