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Real-time tracking of payload drops in low-speed wind tunnel testing at DNW

DNW has successfully developed a non-contact, accurate, reliable, non-intrusive measurement technique to precisely capture in real-time the dynamics and trajectory of objects during testing of wind tunnel models. In the above animation sample results of a helicopter model payload release are  shown, allowing the exploration of a safe separation envelope prior to actual flight.

CAE and DNW sign project MoU at Paris Air Show

The Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE, the Netherlands Aerospace Center NLR and the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels DNW have reinforced and extended bilateral agreements on aeronautical R&D at the Paris Air Show on 20 June 2017. CAE President Dr. Zhang Xinguo, NLR General Director Michel Peters, CAE Chief Scientist Prof.Dr. Hua Jun and DNW Deputy Director Christophe Hermans attended the ceremony.

14 March 2018: Symposium at DNW on "Future needs for experimental verification in aerodynamic disciplines – The next 20 years"

At this symposium - at the same time being a farewell to director Georg Eitelberg - a number of specialists in aeronautics will elaborate their views on aerodynamic disciplines. The symposium is also providing attention to the complex relationship between the academic engineering research and industrial developments on the background of large research infrastructure used for both.

AVT Panel Young Contributor Award for Kerstin Huber

On 12 October 2017, at the 40th Panel Business Meeting of the Applied Vehicle Technology Panel of the NATO in Utrecht, the AVT Panel Young Contributor Award was bestowed on Kerstin Huber, Project Manager at DNW.

CAE and DNW sign follow-up agreement on cooperative research

The Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE and DNW have been engaged in informal and formal cooperative research for some time now. The first formal agreement was signed at the Paris Air Show in June 2011. At that time, it was decided to focus on the predictions and their verification for transonic civil transport aircraft configurations. For the purpose of this work, the CAE designed a reference model for business jet configuration termed the Aerodynamic Validation Model (CAE-AVM), the geometry of which was made available to international research organizations for their reference. This model was extensively tested in the DNW-HST where in addition to the aerodynamic performance of the model, its deformation under steady loads was recorded in parallel. The results of the collaboration and predictions from participating institutes were reported and analysed in an international workshop under the title “CFD-Wind Tunnel Correlation Study” in Beijing in March 2016. The workshop was judged a success by the participants from numerous institutions world-wide and the organizers from CAE and DNW.

Supersonic blow-down wind tunnel SST operated successfully after a long break

Due to renewed need for testing in the supersonic regime, DNW decided to bring the maintenance level of the SST back up to the testing requirements. That included the process of recalibration of the facility after its long period of idleness. This effort was rewarded by a successful test campaign for an external customer, finished in January 2018, who expressed great satisfaction with the performance of the tunnel and the team.

Andreas Bergmann Director of DNW

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Andreas Bergmann took up his position as Director of DNW. Andreas is the successor of Georg Eitelberg, who retired on 01 April 2018. The Management of DNW now consists of two Directors of equal standing, appointed by each one of the parent companies German Aerospace Center DLR and the Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR.

Airbus presents ‘Flight Lab’ BLADE aircraft, extensively tested in the DNW-LLF, to EU Clean Sky partners at ILA

Director of DNW Christophe Hermans was one of the key industrial partners in BLADE to attend the ceremony.
Airbus has signed an accord with representatives of the numerous stakeholders to not only mark the joint success of bringing this unique program to fruition, but also affirm their desire to build on this program in the European framework of Clean Sky. The stakeholders present together with Airbus CEO Tom Enders at the ceremony included members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, the German Government, European Member States and industrial partners across Europe (copyright Airbus). See also http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/04/airbus-presents--flight-lab--blade-test-aircraft-to-eu-clean-sky.html

Aircraft of the future – researchers conduct first real-time flutter analysis

The aircraft manufacturer Embraer, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and German–Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) have succeeded in testing an innovative method for examining the safety of future aircraft. In another first, they have been able to analyze the flutter behavior of a wing in real time.

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