Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984577

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984577

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Practical wall-turbulence drag reduction through adaptive control. Long term increases in the price of aviation fuel disproportionately impacts on Australian carriers, given our geographic isolation and the resulting greater percentage of long-haul flights. The resulting higher fares will also have a direct impact on international tourism to Australia. One way to reduce the impact of rising fuel cost, and to reduce CO2 and other emissions at the same time, is to decrease drag on aircraft. This project will develop understanding in wall turbulence and adaptive control, and use this to experimentally demonstrate active reductions in skin friction drag. The results are equally applicable to a range of other applications including sea transport, pipe flows and combustor designs.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-07-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $540,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aerodynamics | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Fluidization And Fluid Mechanics | Turbulent Flows

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Transport | Wind | Physical sciences |

Other Keywords

Aerodynamics | Fluidization And Fluid Mechanics | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Physical sciences | Transport | Turbulent Flows | Wind

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