2024/02/20 - LBRG joins kick-off meeting for EU-funded project FALCON

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The EU-funded project FALCON (Foreseeing the next generation of Aircraft: hybrid approach using Lattice-boltzmann, experiments and modelling to optimize fluid/struCture interactiONs) has started in January 2024 for a duration of 4 years and is coordinated by the Université d'Aix-Marseille, France. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101138305. The FALCON partners (from 6 countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, UK) each bring unique expertise in experimental and numerical approaches in fluid and solid mechanics: Aix-Marseille University, Protisvalor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centrale Méditerranée, Airbus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), CS GROUP, MSC Software, German Aerospace Center (DLR), IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Euronovia. FALCON's goal is to enhance the design capabilities of the European industrial aircraft sector by focusing on fluid-structure interaction (FSI) phenomena to improve the aerodynamic performance of aircraft (unsteady loads). FALCON assembles a unique interdisciplinary environment of fifteen public and private institutions and their affiliated entities (from renowned research institutions to SMEs and aircraft high-tier suppliers and integrators) to cover all the required scientific and know-how expertise. Building upon three industrial test cases and tight links with key European partnerships such as Clean Aviation, FALCON delineates a high-impact/low-risk proposal that will significantly contribute to the digital transformation of the European aircraft supply chain. The Lattice Boltzmann Research Group (LBRG) participated in the official kick-off meeting for FALCON (see LinkedIn).