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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.

Two new fascinating animation videos have just been released by SLOWD partner University of Cape Town!

Underwater Explosion Schlieren CFD Animation

The SLOWD project was included in an article in The Week In Technology of Aviation Week & Space Technology on February 17th 2020!

For more information please visit: https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/week-technology-feb-17-21-2020

On the 11th and 12th of February 2020 the SLOWD Consortium successfully conducted its M6 Progress Meeting in Rome, Italy!

SLOWD has just launched its public website, which will be the main source of information about the SLOWD progress, activities, news and significant results. In addition, the project objectives, the solution proposed in order to achieve them as well as descriptions of the SLOWD Consortium partners are presented. It will also be updated with all SLOWD relevant documents, news, events and other resources on a regular basis.

The website is constructed in a simple and user-friendly manner, enabling the users to navigate easily and have quick access to the information.

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 December 2019 issue, presenting briefly the project, its objectives and moves towards their accomplishments.

For the article please visit the December 2019 issue of the EASN Newsletter.

The SLOWD (SLOshing Wing Dynamics) project was officially launched during a two day Kick-off Meeting held on September 10th and 11th 2019 in Bristol, UK. The Kick-off Meeting was an opportunity for the project partners to meet, obtain an overview of the entire project and initiate the first interactions which will take place during the three year lifetime of SLOWD. Further actions upon the scheduling and requirements of the activities were discussed and agreed among all partners.