03.1 - Aerodynamics – CFD Methods and Validation
TOWARDS REFINED CONTRAIL SIMULATIONS OF FORMATION FLIGHT SCENARIOS
J. Pauen¹, S. Unterstrasser¹, A. Stephan¹; ¹DLR, Germany
Formation flight is a promising option to reduce aviation's CO2 emissions and even more the contrail climate impact. Contrail LES with RANS-based wake vortex initialisation will be performed to improve our understanding of early contrail processes. Hereby, single aircraft scenarios as well as formation flight configurations are investigated.