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New video is now online on our youtube channel! Watch it at this link or below! The wings of large civil passenger aircrafts are highly flexible structures, that house the fuel tanks but can be deformed significantly when atmospheric turbulence or gust is encountered.
The scientific peer-reviewed paper of our SLOWD colleagues-J. Martinez-Carrascal and L.M. González-Gutiérrez - under the title "Experimental study of the liquid damping effects on a SDOF vertical sloshing tank" is out. The article was digitally published in the Journal of Fluids and Structures on the 12th of November and it is available in open access through the following links.
The SLOWD project was delighted to participate in the 10th EASN Virtual International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space to the Satisfaction of the European Citizens”, which took place online between 02 and 04 September, 2020 .
Over the years the EASN conference has been established as a major European Dissemination event. The 10th international gathering of the EASN Association was attended by more than 350 researchers from various disciplines who presented their high quality recent achievements and new upstream research ideas.
Have you read our latest article included in the EASN Newsletter?
This August edition is full of exciting news and information on the aeronautics field as well as all the details you need for our latest SLOWD research achievements!
Enjoy the full article here!
The scientific peer-reviewed paper of our SLOWD colleagues- S. Marrone, A. Colagrossi - under the title "Detailed study on the extension of the δ-SPH model to multi-phase flow" is out.
The article was published in "Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering" journal on the 15th of August 2020 and it is available in open access through the following links.
The European Aeronautics Science Network publishes on a regular basis an electronic newsletter which is distributed to several thousands of researchers and scientists throughout Europe.
A SLOWD related article has been published in the April 2020 issue, presenting the latest news and main up-to-date activities of the project.
The test displayed belongs to a one degree of freedom experimental campaign performed at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid within the SLOWD project. The physical magnitudes measured are acceleration, position and total force. A considerable gain in damping has been reported when compared to the equivalent dry test and it will allow to detect the influence of the fluid in the overall damping of the system.
In this video by SLOWD partners Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and CNR Institute of Marine Engineering we can visualize 3 seconds of an SPH simulation when a tank is moved with a damped harmonic motion. The tank represents a fuel contained place in an aircraft wing and the tank motion mimics the typical tank motion when turbulence interacts with the wing. The number of particles is around 150000. Colors represent the velocity magnitude.
SLOWD partner University of Bristol has just released an impressive video:
Water sloshing experiment on a single degree of freedom system for sloshing-induced damping investigations
This test has been carried out at the Airbus Protospace facilities in Filton. It aimed at investigating the effect of fuel sloshing on the dynamic behaviour of wing-like structures.