News

On the 8th and 9th of February 2023, the SLOWD team was gathered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire for its 42M progress meeting that was hosted by our STFC-UKRI partners. The meeting was in person allowing remote attendees to join as well. Partners representing the consortium organizations met each other in this two-day meeting to present their latest scientific and technical results, exchange information on overall progress, and agree on the next steps to be followed.

The first issue for 2023 of the quarterly e-newsletter of the European Aeronautics Science Network has just been released, covering interesting topics relevant to the aeronautics community! Among others, it features the latest news and progress of the SLOWD project. 

For the article, please visit the January 2023 issue of the EASN Newsletter! 

We are so thrilled to announce that the scientific peer-reviewed paper of our SLOWD colleagues Julien Michel, Danilo Durante, Andrea Colagrossi, and Salvatore Marrone under the title "Energy dissipation in violent three-dimensional sloshing flows induced by high-frequency vertical accelerations" has been released in the Physics of Fluids journal.

From 17 to 19 October 2022, the SLOWD Consortium successfully conducted online its M36 progress meeting.

This SLOWD gathering was a great opportunity for the members to present their latest scientific and technical achievements, exchange information on overall progress, and agree on the next steps to be followed.

Our team is particularly proud to announce the publication of a Special Issue devoted to the SLOWD project in the scientific journal Applied Sciences. This special issue is entitled “Liquid Slosh Damping: Experimental and Numerical Developments” and the main goal is to highlight the recent developments, advances and new frontiers in the framework of liquid-slosh-induced energy dissipation resulting from the SLOWD project. In addition, it presents related novel developments which include industrially relevant CFD benchmark solutions.

The European Aeronautics Science Network’s most recent newsletter is featuring SLOWD. If you are interested in the activities our project has been involved in so far, you may discover our news up to date through the SLOWD dedicated article here.

Enjoy the reading!

Watch the new SLOWD video that was created by University of Bristol about the fuel sloshing effects experienced in-flight. The experiment is replicating a scaled wing structure with representative 70% full fuel tanks being deflected and then released. The resulting measured fluid and structural motions are used to gain understanding of the physics involved in such fluid-structure interactions and to provide validation test cases for the computational models that have been developed in SLOWD.

On the 16th and 17th of March, 2022, the SLOWD team of researchers conducted its M30 Technical Progress Meeting. The meeting was hybrid, taking place online, and onsite in Madrid, Spain, providing an exceptional opportunity to the consortium partners to meet each other for the first time in person in two years.

SLOWD project is pleased to take part in the 11th EASN Virtual International Conference which will take place online between 01 and 03 September 2021.

The SLOWD Review meeting and a fruitful series of internal Progress meetings were successfully held from 19 to 22 of April, 2021 in a digital format. The meetings were attended by representatives of all entities involved in SLOWD.