NSERC/Lockheed Martin/Bell Helicopter Industrial Research Chair for Multi-physics Analysis and Design of Aerospace Systems

飞机设计师不断努力优化空气动力学效率，增加空中旅行的舒适性和安全性。这是通过在设计过程中嵌入空气动力学、结构弹性和动力学等学科的复杂相互作用，以及飞行中结冰等安全问题来解决的。这种以计算流体力学为基础的多物理场数值方法已经成为飞机设计中最广泛使用的平台。该研究的目的是开发新的多物理场计算方法，能够更深入地了解许多不同现象之间的相互作用，并支持对未来飞机设计的准确和高效工具的需求。该研究将涵盖从高超声速高空气体动力学到直升机空气动力学和航空结冰的主题，并包括开发高效网格工具和先进的减少订单建模，以实现经济高效的实时计算。该研究由洛克希德·马丁公司和贝尔直升机公司资助，研究结果将使加拿大航空航天部门在选定的研究领域内处于科学和工业航空航天界的前沿。两家公司都打算通过这一职位增加在加拿大的研究活动，就LMCO而言，打算建立一个新的加拿大实体，使这项研究成果工业化。

Aircraft designers continually strive to optimize aerodynamic efficiency and increase the comfort and safety ofair travel. This is addressed by embedding into the design process a complex interplay of disciplines likeaerodynamics, structural elasticity and dynamics, as well as safety concerns such as in-flight icing. Suchmulti-physics numerical approaches, anchored around Computational Fluid Dynamics, have become the mostwidely used platforms for aircraft design.The objective of the research is to develop new multi-physics computational approaches capable of providingdeeper understanding of the interaction between many different phenomena and support the need for accurateand efficient tools for the design of future aircraft.The research will cover topics ranging from hypersonic high-altitude gas dynamics to helicopter aerodynamicsand aero-icing, and encompassing the development of efficient meshing tools and advanced Reduced OrderModeling for cost-effective real-time calculations.The research is financed by Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopter and the outcomes of the research will put theCanadian aerospace sector at the forefront of the scientific and industrial aerospace communities, within theselected fields of research.It is the intention of both companies to increase their research activities in Canada through this Chair, and inthe case of LMCO, to establish a new Canadian entity to industrialize the results of this research.