Ultra-Efficient Commercial Vehicles

Speaker: Jim Coder, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
July 26, 2018

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Abstract

Slotted, natural-laminar-flow (SNLF) airfoils have been identified as an enabling technology for achieving a 70% reduction in fuel/energy burn of fixed-wing commercial transport aircraft relative to a 2005 baseline. The University of Tennessee is leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research effort to mature SNLF technology for flight Mach and Reynolds numbers based on the Boeing Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft. Research activities are divided into three phases: Technology Development, Technology Integration, and Technology Demonstration, with a goal of a capstone transonic wind-tunnel test in the final year of the project.

Biography

Jim Coder is an Assistant Professor of aerospace engineering in the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) department at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville. His research focuses on computational aerodynamics using RANS and hybrid RANS/LES methodologies, and includes advanced turbulence/transition model development, simulation of unsteady rotorcraft flows, hypersonic SBLI, and aerodynamic design optimization. He is currently leading a team under NASA’s University Leadership Initiative focusing on Ultra-Efficient Commercial Vehicles. Coder is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, serving as a member of their Applied Aerodynamic Technical Committee and leading the APATC Education Subcommittee and the APATC CFD Transition Modeling Discussion Group. He is also a member of the American Helicopter Society.

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