Smart Fixed-Wing Aircraft

SFWA‐ITD overview

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 50% cut in CO2 emissions
Aircraft manufacturers 20-25%

Engine manufacturers
15-20% Operations 5-10%
Air Traffic Management
Technologies are key towards ACARE 
targets, but can only deploy their 
benefits through smart integration

ACARE: Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe

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Input connecting to: Smart Wing Technologies
SAGE ITD – CROR engine Technology Development
Technology Integration
SGO – Systems for Green
 Large Scale Flight Demonstration
Operation
 Natural Laminar Flow (NLF)
 Hybrid Laminar Flow (HLF)
 Active and passive load control
Innovative Powerplant Integration  Novel enabling materials
 Technology Integration  Innovative manufacturing scheme
 Large Scale Flight Demonstration
 Impact of airframe flow field on Propeller
design (acoustic, aerodynamic, vibration)
 Impact of open rotor configuration on
airframe (Certification capabilities, structure,
vibrations...)
 Innovative empennage design

Output providing data to:

TE– SFWA technologies for a
Green ATS

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SFWA‐ITD technical priorities and roadmap  ‐ Major demonstrators

1. High Speed Flight Demonstrator

Objective: Large scale flight test of passive and active flow and loads control solutions
on all new innovative wing concepts to validate low drag solutions at representative
Mach and Reynolds Numbers. Envisaged to be used at least in two major phases of
the project.
Airbus A340-300 with modified wing Selected in April 2009

2. Low Speed Demonstrator Selection in Q3 / 2011

Objective: Validation flight testing of High Lift solution to support / enable the innovative wing 
/ low drag concepts with a full scale demonstrator. 
2.1 Smart Flap large scale ground demo  / DA Falcon type Bizjet trailing edge
2.2 Low Speed Vibration Control Flight Test Demonstration DA Falcon F7X

3. Innovative Engine Demonstrator Flying Testbed
Objective: Demonstrate viability of full scale innovative engine concept in operational 
condition 
Airbus A340-500 with modified wing Selected April 2010
4. Long Term Technology Flight Demonstrator
Objective: Validation of durability and robustness of Smart Wing technologies in operational 
environment
Selection(s) part of
In Service Transport Aircraft
Airbus A300 “Beluga”  technology roadmap
5. Innovative Empenage Ground Demonstrator
Objective: Validation of a structural rear empenage concept for noise shielding engine 
integration on business jets
SFWA design Selected Q4 2011
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SFWA 0: Airbus /
SAAB

Airbus
Dassault SAAB
SFWA3:
SFWA1: SFWA2: Flight Demonstration
Smart Wing Technology New Configuration
Airbus
SFWA3.1
High Speed Smart Wing
Airbus Flight Demonstrator
SFWA1.1 Airbus SFWA2.1
Flow Control Integration of Smart Wing Selected
Selected into OAD Selected SFWA3.2 technologies 
Technologies  Dassault
SFWA1.2
Airbus
Technologies  Technologies  Low Speed Smart Wing validated in 
enter at  Load Flight Demonstrator
Control
developed at  SFWA2.2 integrated at 
Dassault
large scale 
TRL 2 or 3 Integration of Other Smart TRL 4 or 5
NL-Cluster TRL 4 Components into OAD SFWA3.3
flight demos 
Airbus
SFWA1.3
Integrated Flow & Load at TRL > 6
Innovative Engine Demonstrator
Control Systems Airbus Flying Test Bed
SFWA2.3
Interfaces & Technology Airbus
Assessment SFWA3.4
Long Term Technology
Flight Demonstrator

Airbus
SFWA3.5
Innovative Empenage
Technology Development Technology Integration
Flight Demo Design
Flight Demonstration
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 Active Flow Control: Overview
Active flow control system functionality testing

Future 
Activities
AFLoNext
AFC System  CS2 ?
Ground Testing 

AFC System 
Modeling and 
Simulation 

Integrated 
Design and 
Evaluation of 
AFC system 

Key message:
Good AFC system performance demonstrated in ground tests for normal operation
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Passive Buffet Control for Lam. & Turb. Wings

Progress achieved on Shock Control Bumps in 2012
CFD Studies (USTUTT) Wind Tunnel Studies (UCAM)

Total pressure
loss in %

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SFWA large
Smart Flaps Innovative Rear 
demo´s with focus Empenage Natural Laminar Flow 
on Bizjets
Wing

Kp

Structures and systems 
integration for innovative 
Wing
x

Krueger Flaps for laminar 
Leading Edge Coating
wing

High Aspect Ratio
Load and vibration 
alleviation
Analyse turbulence V289
2009/261 19.37.24
Outils CS
VENTZ (M/S) P-F
REAL PART
8

2
Contribution in
SFWA Large
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30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50

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-4

Aircraft Demo´s
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TIME (S)

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 Control of loads and vibrations Simulations and 
demonstration strategy

Validation plan in 2 steps

 Phase 1: Ground Tests 
– Validation of control law design
methodology
– Validation of ability to control
vibrations due to a well known
excitation force

 Phase 2: Flight Tests
– Validation of vibration reduction
function in real environment

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High Speed Demonstrator Passive

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Smart Passive Laminar Flow Wing

 Design of an all new natural laminar wing
Starboard wing
 Proof of natural laminar wing concept in wind tunnel tests
Laminar wing structure
 Use of novel materials and structural concepts concept option 1

 Exploitation of structural and system integration together

with tight tolerance / high quality manufacturing methods
Laminar Wing Ground test in a large scale ground test demonstrator
demonstrator to address 
structural, system and 
 Large scale flight test demonstration of the laminar
manufacturing aspects wing in operational conditions
Port wing
Laminar wing structure
concept option 2

Laminar Wing aerodynamic 
layout and performance

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BLADE Partnership (Wing Perimeter)

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 Smart Wing flight test instrumentation 

Status March 2013 (ARM)
A

A340-300 Extend of
laminar flow

Smart Wing observation camera view angle from

Representation of laminar 
potential observer pod position (Airbus) B
Wing on A340 flying test bed

E F
D
Flush mount hot film
Infrared Image of laminar – In‐Flight Monitoring of Wing 
sensor for the detection
turbulent flow transition Surface with Quasi tangential 
C on wing surface (ONERA)
of flow separation
Reflectometry and Shadow 
(ONERA)
Casting “WING REFLECTOMETRY” 
Phase locked PIV for quantitive wake- (FTI)
flow diagnostics of CROR-blades in
flight (Illustration: DLR, 2009)
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 Working Principles

The system consists in:

 An illumination source:
high power pulse laser to generate a light sheet

 A seeding system: using particles contained in the

atmosphere (natural) or spraying particles

 An optical part: 2 or more high speed / high resolution

cameras, set perpendicularly to the laser sheet to
capture the illuminated particles, by cross‐correlation

 Post‐processing and correlation tools

 Processing

Two pictures are taken in a timeframe of

0,1µs: the illuminated particles are captured at
t and (t + ∆t).
As the particles move, the displacement is
measured and the velocity vector is computed
Example of a velocity field measured with the PIV technique

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Smart Wing manufacturing and assembly scenarios

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CROR  demonstration engine Flying Test Bed 

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CROR  engine integration concepts 

RR/ SN/ AI
Decission Sept 2011:

Engine concept for

integration studies

Engine concept for

integration studies

Demo Engine
for Flight Test

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