01 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems
CONCEPT VALIDATION STUDY FOR FUSELAGE WAKE-FILLING PROPULSION INTEGRATION
A. Seitz¹, F. Peter¹, J. Bijewitz¹, A. Habermann¹, Z. Goraj², M. Kowalski², A. Castillo Pardo³, C.A. Hall³, F. Meller, Airbus Innovations, Germany; R. Merkler, MTU Aero Engines, Germany; O. Petit*, S. Samuelsson*, B. Della Corteº, M. van Sluisº, G. Wortmann, Siemens AG, Germany; M. Dietz, ARTTIC, Germany; ¹Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V., Germany ;²Warsaw University of Technology, Poland ;³University of Cambridge, United Kingdom ;*Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ;ºTechnical University of Delft, Netherlands
The paper provides an overview of the EC-funded H2020 project CENTRELINE aiming at maximising the benefits of aft-fuselage wake-filling under realistic systems design and operating conditions. CENTRELINE targets the proof of concept and initial experimental validation for a highly promising propulsion-airframe integration approach, the so-called Propulsive Fuselage Concept (PFC).