Gran Capitán s/n, 08034 Barcelona. Spain

Dr. Gabriel Bugeda ((bugeda@cimne.upc.es))

CIMNE is a research organisation created in 1987 specialised in the development of mathematical methods and software for analysis of structural and fluid flow problems using numerical techniques. Over the last years CIMNE has participated and coordinated different RTD projects within the EC programmes. The projects have been mainly focussed on the development and application of finite element, finite volume and finite difference methods to solve multidisciplinary industrial problems such as high speed re-entry of aerospace vehicles, aero and hydro elastic design of aircrafts and ships, optimum aerodynamic shape optimisation, noise reduction in rotating flows, thermo-mechanical analysis of different metal forming processes (casting, sheet forming, rolling, powder compaction, etc.), advanced structural analysis involving contact and friction as well as in the development of parallel computing techniques. CIMNE hosts the Secretariats of a number of scientific organizations such as the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), the Spanish Pilot Center of the ERCOFTAC association and the Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI). Currently CIMNE employs 75 researchers specialised in software development, out of which some 32 researchers have experience in the development and applications of finite element methods for multidisciplinary problems. This experience will be essential for the successful development of the PROMUVAL project. The main roles of CIMNE in the project will include the overall coordination and administration of the project activities, the development and maintenance of the PROMUVAL Communication System, the contribution to the compilation and storage of multidisciplinary data on mathematical and computational methods and the support to the dissemination tasks. CIMNE's team in the project will be co-ordinated by Dr. E. Oñate (Director of CIMNE) with over 20 years experience in developing numerical methods for analysis of multidisciplinary problems in engineering.

Definition of objectives and specifications. Contribution to the state of the art review. Development of Web based PROMUVAL system. Retrieval and storage of data on finite element methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems. Identification or critical areas in the analysis of multidisciplinary problems in aeronautics. Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology. Organization of dissemination activities (workshops). Participation in guideline sessions for training of users.

Dassault Aviation is an aircraft manufacturer with 9300 people working in 12 facilities; out of the, 2250 are dedicated to R&D and tests. Sized to cope with aerospace new challenges, its wide range of products (some of them are produced in European cooperation) underlines its know-how and skill in the fields of high technologies. The R&D goals of the company are: cost control together with a high quality, mastering of complex systems, improvement of skill in new technologies. For many years, Dassault Aviation has developed a large set of simulation codes based on various numerical methods. Each of these codes is well adapted to the study of specific physical phenomena, entering in the scope of INGENET project. The teams involved in this project are the Prospective Division which has experience in the management of European projects and the DTA/MOD/Aero Divion in the coordination and participation of several BRITE-EURAM and ESPRIT projects aiming at the development and assessment of optimum design methods in order to reduce drag and weight of aerodynamic shape (ECARP), code validation for compressible flows, dissemination and evaluation of Genetic Algorithms in Industry. CAD-CAM platforms and industrial integration of parallel solvers for large scale complex problems. Dassault Aviation is involved in the design and production of the MIRAGE and RAFALE fighters and of the FALCON business jets which are manufactured in France. The work of taking account of transition (laminar to turbulent) location in Navier-Stokes codes is still a challenging problem for validation purpose in aeronautical industry. One tentative contribution of Dassault Aviation to the PROMUVAL project is to analyze one existing test case from EUROLIFT EU project dedicated to a precise knowledge of transition locations on a multi component swept wing operating at landing conditions. Experimental knowledge of these transition locations is crucial for getting confidence in the ability of Navier-Stokes codes to rebuild the flow characteristics around the wing (Clmax, CD and boundary layer separation onset, …). Experimental data coming from EUROLIFT will be an important input for this validation work.

The person of Dassault in charge of the PROMUVAL project will be Dr. J. Periaux. He has over 30 years experience in the development, validation and application of numerical method for solving multidisciplinary problems in aeronautic design.

DASSAULT will be assisted in the development of the project by relevant European scientists external to the company such as Dr. P. Perrier, member of the National Academy of Engineering in France. He has over 35 years experience in the design and production of aircrafts using numerical and experimental methods.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Identification of critical areas in the multidisciplinary design and validation.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Organization of dissemination activities (workshops, short courses and open days).

EADS (DE) is a major European airframe company with wide experience in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). This includes experience on the development of codes, the application in design processes and the validation with respect to measurements, covering steady and unsteady flows in the range from subsonic (incompressible) versus transonic and supersonic to hypersonic flows. EADS (DE) has long recognised that an effective exploitation of CFD for aerodynamic design, requires considerable effort on the validation and enhancement of existing numerical methods including turbulence models.

This EADS (DE) interest stems from the necessity to simulate for current and future aircrafts complex flow fields over complex geometries in order to reduce design cycles and costs as well as time-to-market. Of course, simulation tools have to be validated, improved with respect to reliability and robustness, and verification is needed to use the right simulation tool for the problem going to be considered. For sure, the significance of computer simulations depends on their credibility, but this credibility can only be achieved by thorough validation of codes and proper assessment of incorporated models.

To reach the mentioned credibility goal in an industrial context and in an exceptable time, work has to be performed that relies on well defined test cases, i.e. test cases that have been both comprehensively measured and thoroughly computationally investigated. In other words, a data base, containing industrial relevant test cases, provides a perfect means for carrying out validation work. The importance of this work is even increased by the fact that industry is putting more and more emphasis on the validation matter, while - at the same time - reducing effort in costly fundamental research. Hence, industry relies on a comprehensive and reliable data base.

Dr. W. Haase and Dr. R. Hoeld are senior research scientists, being in charge of numerical flow simulation. This includes both the development of numerical methods for solving the Navier-Stokes equations and the improvement of turbulence models. They have many years of experience in the field and about 45 journal and conference publications. Dr. Haase was coordinator of the Brite/Euram EUROVAL project and an Area-Coordinator of the Brite/Euram ECARP research initiative.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on computational methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems. Data Quality Assessment.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities
Participation in dissemination activities.

Airbus España. is a private aeronautic company recently created in Spain as part of the EADS group. The staff of Airbus España originates from EADS CASA, the major Spanish large-scale aeronautical and aerospace industry with a total of 8000 employees and facilities located in Madrid, Seville and Cadiz. Since 1923, the company has been engaged in the development (design, manufacture and marketing) of aircraft in the field of both military and civil airplanes, being latest designed aircraft C-212 in several versions (civil and military), C-101 (military trainer aircraft), CN-235 and C-295 (military transport aircraft).

Besides this national activities AIRBUS España is a partner through EADS-CASA in various European programmes and organizations, the most important being EF-2000 Typhoon in addition to Airbus Industry and Arianespace membership.

The staff of AIRBUS España has wide experience in aircraft structural and aerodynamic design and analysis and will bring in this experience into the PROMUVAL project. It has become specialist in the field of horizontal tailplane design and manufacturing. In that way it has developed the horizontal tailplane of the successive Airbus Industry aircraft up to today. AIRBUS España is responsible, among other parts, of the horizontal tailplane of the recently launched A380. This experience has been accomplished and maintained thanks to the considerable effort of continuous funding to the field of research and development carried out by the company.

The team in AIRBUS España taking part in the PROMUVAL project will be coordinated by the director of the Aerodynamics Division, Dr. Javier Simón Calero. He has over 20 years in aerodynamic and structural design and analysis of airplanes. He has also taken part, many times as coordinator, in several EC projects within the Brite-Euram, Esprit, Growth and IST programmes.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review and identification of critical areas.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on computational methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).
Participation in guideline sessions for training of users.

Alenia Aerospazio is a subsidiary company of FINMECCANICA S.p.A.; its activities are divided in two divisions: Aeronautics and Space. Design and manufacturing areas include commercial and military aircraft, civil and military avionics systems, space and satellite systems. Particularly concerning the aeronautic division, Alenia is active both as partner within large cooperative international programs (both civil and military) and as developer of its own range of products like G222 (military transport) or AM-X (tactical fighter). Major Alenia current participation in civil programs are in the ATR regional transport and in the B-767 twin jet commercial aircraft, while Tornado and EF-2000 are example of partnership in large government contracts. Finally, some important subcontracted activities are performed for MDD (MD-80, MD-11), Boeing (B-777) and Airbus (A-321). ALENIA will bring in the experience in all these projects into the PROMUVAL project.

Alenia has a well established experience in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and CSM (Computational Structural Mechanics). This includes experience on the development of codes, the application in the design process and the validation with respect to measurements.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases in aeronautics.
Retrieval and storage of data on computational methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

SNECMA is a French company leader in the design and manufacturing of turbines and many other rotating machinery components and products for a wide range of applications in aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors, among others.

Next challenge in turbine engine application will be to reduce the cost and in the same time increase performance and most particularly decrease pollutant emissions and noise nuisance. Industrial designers to reach these objectives need to use multidisciplinary numerical tools. The objective for Snecma in PROMUVAL project is also to determine the necessary level of validation of these methods.

A lot a of multidisciplinary problems exist in a turbine engine. Targeted areas of activity for SNECMA in the PROMUVAL project will be: - Aero-elasticity and aero-acoustics phenomena for compressor and nozzle components; Fluids dynamics-heat transfer-structural dynamics modelling for turbine module; Combustion modelling and radiation heat transfer for pollutant emission in main combustor and finally for reheat in military engine combustion-structural-acoustics coupled physics methods.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases in aeronautics.
Retrieval and storage of data on computational methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) is a French public sector scientific and technological institute under the responsibility of the Ministry for Research and the Ministry of Industry. INRIA employs over 1300 people including 1000 scientists, among which 340 tenure positions, 330 scholar and trainees, 180 researchers from public laboratories, 50 engineers from industry, 100 visiting researchers from abroad. The research carried out at INRIA is mainly concerned with software and control engineering. This research brings together experts from the fields of applied mathematics, control, signal processing and computer science within the frame work of 6 research programmes. Parallel Architectures, Databases Networks, Distributed Systems Symbolic Computing Programming, Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Systems. Man-Machine Interaction Robotics, Image, Vision Signal Processing and Control, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Scientific computing numerical analysis computer-aided engineering.

INRIA has a long experience of international cooperation and coordination responsible for the building of Module (300 installations/members), early contributing to build European structures as ERCIM, ERCOFTAC, ECCOMAS. Spatial CFD networks (Hypersonic database) and many CEC projects. The CFD group Sinus gathers working on the design of efficient and accurate numerical methods for the simulation of complex compressible flows on unstructured meshes. INRIA has one and half experience of theoretical and experimental studies related to optimal control model problem and optimum design problem (industrial aerodynamics) solved using GAs.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review..
Development of multidisciplinary data base tools.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali) is the main establishment for aerospace research in Italy. It is a limited consortium company founded in July 1984 by all the Italian aerospace industries and by the Italian government. Its institutional aim is to design, build and manage the Italian Aerospace Research Center.

CIRA's role in carrying out the activities of the National Program for Aerospace Research (PRORA) is very similar to that of other national research establishments in Europe.

CIRA is located near CAPUA airfield. Up of May 1997, 244 employees are engaged in various activities with 145 directly involved in research. Together with other national research

centres, CIRA is part of the international Association AEREA (Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics).

A lot of resources and efforts have been dedicated in recent years to research activities in computational fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity. Today CIRA is perhaps Italy's leading aerospace

research institute working on efficient algorithms for solving large scale scientific problems that are typical of the industrial environment.

Moreover, CIRA has designed and built some modern aerospace high-performance testing facilities such as the Plasma Wind Tunnel "Scirocco" to study the atmospheric re-entry, the Laboratory for crashworthiness and the Icing Wind Tunnel to investigate ice accretion on aircraft lifting surfaces. These facilities are currently operative and most of them have peculiar characteristics that make them unique all over the world.

The principal objectives are: the development of non competitive applied research as well as the acquisition and development of technology and the evaluation of scientific results and their transfer to industry; offering support to industry for applied research and development, as part of the competitive phase and/or technological validation; providing technical assistance to public authorities for qualification and regulations.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Organization of workshop activities.
Participation in guideline sessions for training of users.

ONERA is the National Research Institution for Aerospace in France. Being the major French research institution in the field of aerospace activities, it contributes either on theoretical aspects or through its experimental facilities, which cover the whole range of Mach numbers, to many research

and development programmes. ONERA contributes in aerospace techniques with its fundamental research, complementing university laboratories, with its applied research, preparing long and medium term projects, and with direct assistance to industry. ONERA is strongly involved in international cooperation and participates in several EU projects. The aim of the Fundamental Experimental Aerodynamics Department is to perform basic studies in order to elucidate the physics of complex separated flows over a Mach number range extending from low subsonic to hypersonic. It has acquired in this field a well known expertize and most of the experiments performed by the Department are included in data banks used by the international community to validate prediction models. The Department works in close cooperation with other Department of ONERA involved in applied and theoretical aerodynamics as also with industry to help in the designing of new concepts. It has numerous contacts with foreign partners and is involved in several cooperative programmes.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

The "Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V." is the largest scientific and engineering establishment in the area of aerospace in Germany. DLR has a vast experience and proven expertise in all aspects of theoretical and experimental analysis of aerospace configurations. This experience has been acquired through own developments as well as through cooperative programs with relevant industries, universities and research organisations.

DLR has, in particular, considerable experience and expertise in the development and application of numerical and experimental methods needed for aerodynamic design and analysis. This is also valid for the aerothermodynamics of e.g. space vehicles. The capabilities of DLR have been proven in many international cooperations, e.g. Brite/Euram ones, and workshops of all kinds. DLR owns or uses large-scale wind tunnels/ facilities as well as supercomputers.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshops, short courses and open days).

CENAERO is a research center in Belgium created in June 2002. CENAERO groups a number of enterprises, universities and research organizations on Belgium interested in RTD in aeronautics. Founding members of CENAERO are EWA, University of Liege, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Univ. Catholique de Louvain and ICRETEC.

The main goal of CENAERO are: provide members with enhanced combined expertise; unique combination of expertise from universities, industry and software development companies; European leading research organization with utmost technological knowledge; European and international strengthening of Wallonia position in aeronautics.

CENAERO aims to developing RTD project in the following fields:

• Multi-phisics: simulation of physics problems coupling different engineering fields (solid mechanics, thermal problems, acoustics, multiphase flows, aerodynamics, electromagnetics, control,…
• Virtual manufacturing: process modelling and simulation (manufacturing, stamping, stretching, welding, cutting, surface treatment, …
• Integrated technological R&D project management for aeronautics

The current research of CENAERO focus in the following areas:

• Damage and rupture mechanics, structure lifecycle prediction (fatigue, fracture mechanics, crack initiation and propagation,…)
• Flow simulation (unsteady turbulent flows, fluid-structure interactions, acoustics, …)
• Thermal problems (thermo-mechanical behaviours of assemblies, thermo-mechanical non-linear coupling, …)
• Virtual manufacturing (constitutive relations of materials, thermo-mechanical coupling, fracture mechanics, damaging, contact, …) and mechanisms simulation (impact, inverse simulation, mechatronics, …)
• Numerical methods (parallel computing, mathematical modelling, error estimators, optimisation, …)

• CENAERO will participate to tasks T1.2 and T1.3. CENAERO is involved in the development of advanced tools for weakly and strongly coupled simulations in the area of fluid-structure, fluid-acoustics interactions and therefore would participate in the definition and choice of particular validation test cases of interest to these areas.
• CENAERO will participate in the set up and testing of the web based PROMUVAL communication system thanks to its in-house knowledge of web systems development.
• CENAERO will support the implementation of the multidisciplinary database tools.
• A main focus of CENAERO is the development of advanced tools for multiphysics simulations. Hence, CENAERO wishes to actively participate in tasks T4.1, T4.2 and T4.3. CENAERO internally supports the development of new CFD simulation tools for accurate unsteady turbulent flow simulation especially dedicated to fluid-structure and fluid-acoustics interactions. Ongoing internal research on numerical methods for discretization, parallel computing, mesh adaptation and fast linear system solvers will definitely help the successful completion on this workpackage.
• CENAERO is actively developing advanced new finite-element Discontinuous Galerkin methods for fluid-acoustics interaction and therefore wishes to participate to this workpackage to define new critical mathematical models and numerical methods.
• CENAERO wishes to support this workpackage in order to correctly devise experimental results to assess the quality of its numerical solutions.
• CENAERO is developing an object oriented platform capable of supporting all its applicative solution software in terms of numerical discretizations, mesh management, mesh adaptation, solvers and intensive parallel computing using distributed clusters (Beowulf). Therefore, CENAERO wishes to actively participate to tasks T7.1 and T7.2.
• As an intensive user of simulation tools, CENAERO can contribute to T8.1 and T8.2.
• CENAERO will participate to the workshop and short course.
• Project management

The Laboratory of Thermal Turbomachinery (LTT) of the National Technical University of Athens

(NTUA) founded in 1982, is one of the five Greek Labs that constitute the Athens Pilot Centre of ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion). Twenty-one engineers (of which three University staff and seven post-docs), and two technicians work in LTT/NTUA, supported by seven members of administrative staff. The LTT/NTUA Research Group works or has worked under contract and/or in collaboration for contract work with a few of the major European industrial outfits and Organisations, as well as with the Commission of the E.U. Since 1987, LTT/NTUA has terminated successfully or still been working on 3 BRITE projects, 2 Wind Energy projects, 12 BRITE EURAM projects, 3 Joule projects, 4 EU funded educational projects (1 COMMET and 3 ERASMUS). An important level infrastructure has been established, including a high speed compressor test rig (24000 rpm 750 kw), a very high speed compressor test rig (80.000 rpm, 300 kw), a very high speed cold turbine test rig (80.000 rpm, 400kw) and a high speed peripheral cascade for tip clearance effects studies. The Supercomputing Unit, which includes the two large platforms cited below, is being run by the personnel of LTT/NTUA. Advanced instrumentation is in use complementing the existing infrastructure.

The scientific, technical/technological areas covered by the Lab R&D activities are Gas and Steam Turbines, Axial and Radial Compressors, Fans and Wind Generators and Hydraulic Machinery. Design, Analysis and Operational Aspects are considered for the kind of machinery and the corresponding installations. In addition, work on any other flow situation is covered, provided that it can be met with the computational capabilities, experimental facilities and existing know-how in the Lab.

The Lab is supporting itself financially. The majority of scientists working in the Research Group are remunerated through contracts with industry and organisations. Thus, collaboration with industrial outfits and organisations, from where knowledge of the technical problems comes, is sought. This is necessary not only for financial reasons but, also, for rendering the Research Group conscious of the existing important technical problems in the field. This aspect of LTT/NTUA's policy is well reflected in the number of important European industrial outfits with which LTT/NTUA collaborates.

The current of the Research Group of LTT/NTUA address the following areas :

• Euler and Navier-Stokes solvers for various applications (internal/external aerodynamics turbo-machinery), including grid generation techniques.
• Codes for the calculations of various viscous shear layer situations.
• Optimisation Tools
• Diagnostic techniques for turbo machinery installations (both Gas Path Analysis and Vibration Analysis).
• Interactive design systems for pressure increasing and work producing Turbomachines and use for the design of turbo-machinery components.

The Computer Facilities at NTUA Supercomputing Unit include an INTEL Paragon with 48 computing nodes and a Silicon Graphics POWER CHALLENGE with 14 R-8000 processors.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector. Particular emphasis will be put in collection data from existing EC projects.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems. Particular emphasis will be put in collection data from existing EC projects.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Organization of dissemination activities (workshop).

The Mechanical Engineering department of UMIST has been continuously involved in research on aircraft turbines (rotating flows, turbulence, heat transfer flows) for over 20 years, and is now deeply orienting its research and training towards Aerospace engineering. It is now being renamed Dept. of Aerospace, Manufacturing and Mechanical Eng. It has received the top rating 5-star grade in the UK Research-Assessment-Exercise, and new research activities now include turbulence-and-acoustics, fluid-structure elastic coupling, conjugate heat transfer.

UMIST has organised a number of ERCOFTAC and participated to all yearly workshops on CFD code and turbulence modelling validation. UMIST is hosting the ERCOFTAC database " Classic collection " of test cases as well as the site www.aerodyn.org .

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

The Dipartimento di Meccanica e Aeronautica of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" has as its main objective that of promoting and coordinating the research in the different areas of applied mechanics, structures, energetics and turbomachinery in areas close to aeronautic engineering. The department has also the responsibility for defining the curriculum in aeronautical as well as mechanical engineering.

The members of the department are actively involved in collaborative research in close cooperation with national and international institutions and industries such as, for example:

The department counts on 20 between technicians and administrative personnel, and it has approximately 45 faculty members and 20 researchers; among its facilities the department has a Wind Tunnel facility, LDV, HW and PIV equipments, distributed memory resources and remote access to CRAY Y-MP, Cray T3E, IBM-SP2, etc.

The CFD and modelling group participating in the PROMUVAL project is formed by Dr. B. Favini, Dr. S. Pirozzoli and Dr. F. Grasso. The group is completed with the participation of Dr. G. Romano with experience in experimental methods and testing in aeronautic related problems. As a whole the group of Univ. Rome has background in theoretical, computational and experimental fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics and combustion. The group has been actively involved in several european research projects such as BRITE-EURAM (EUROSUP and ECARP), HERMES, FESTIP, HSFFNET and FLOWNET. In particular, it has the scientific co-responsibility and coordinates the activities on "Data quality assessment and code validation" of FLOWNET. In addition, it also shares the scientific coordination of the working group on aeroacoustics within MACSINET.

Definition of objectives and specifications.
Contribution to the state of the art review.
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector.
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational methods for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems.
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and future RTD methodology.
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course).

Dept. of Fluid Mechanics of the faculty of Engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Personnel: 2 professors and about 15 research engineers of whom 5 at PostDoc level. Main research topics : CFD, Aeroelasticity, Turbomachinery, Wind Engineering, Wind Energy. Infrastructure : CRAY computer at University Computer Center, 4 processor Power Challenge, different workstations. Two low speed wind tunnels. LDA measurement system.

VUB will contribute to the PROMUVAL project with multidisciplinary mathematical and computational data for analysis of rotating engines and aeroelasticity problems.

Definition of objectives and specifications..
Contribution to the state of the art review..
Retrieval and storage of data for multidisciplinary test cases of interest to the aeronautics sector. .
Retrieval and storage of data on mathematical and computational method for multidisciplinary aeronautics problems. .
The activities of VUB in the PROMUVAL project will mainly focus in the field of computational aero-acoustics and vibro-acoustics. More specific the following test problems will be considered: subsonic round jet flow, subsonic flow around a cylinder and subsonic flow around a NACA0012 wing..
Identification of critical RTD areas in multidisciplinary analysis and validation in aeronautics..
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines and methodology..
Participation in dissemination activities (workshop, short course)..

ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion) is an international (European) association according to Belgian law forming a network between universities, research, laboratories and industries in the field of flow, turbulence and combustion. The main objectives of the association are: i) to define strategies for research education and exchange of information in flow, turbulence and combustion; ii) to strengthen the research base and promote industrial application of research by means of new kinds of collaboration between industry, governments, professional societies and research groups; iii) to provide members with access to all sources of useful information on flow, turbulence and combustion. The association has 42 members from industry and 124 members from research from basically all European countries. The member organizations are affiliated to Pilot Centres which act as local centres for collaboration, stimulation and application of research. European-wide research collaboration is coordinated through Special Interest Groups on specific topics in the area of flow, turbulence and combustion. Mainly through the Special Interest Groups, ERCOFTAC has participated or is participating in a number of EU sponsored projects. Of particular relevance is a Science Project on Data Bases which led to the creation of the ERCOFTAC data bank. Further, the Industrial Advisory Committee of ERCOFTAC established a Special Interest Group on Quality and Trust in CFD Calculations which will gather expertise in the area of quality assessment and control and plans to put together a very extensive data base in the general area of the association.

The European Community on Computational Method in Applied Sciences was created in Paris in 1989 with the aim of grouping the national associations in Europe dealing with the development and applications of computational method in applied sciences and engineering. Currently ECCOMAS groups some 25 associations from 20 european countries. ECCOMAS organizes workshops and conferences in Europe related in computational science and engineering. Among these we note the ECCOMAS CFD conferences held at about two year intervals (Stuttgart 1996, Greece 1998 and Swansea 2001) the ECOOMAS Conferences on Solid and Structuring Mechanics (Munich 1999 and Cracow 2001) and the general ECCOMAS Congress in computing all fields of computational sciences and engineering (solids and structures, CFD, electromagnetics, computational chemistry and numerical methods). The ECCOMAS congresses were held in Brussels (1992), Paris (1996) and Barcelona (2000). The Barcelona congress was attended some 1200 participants and included an industrial exhibitions which attracted some 40 exhibitors. Some 18 Technical Sessions presenting results from European RTD projects were organized by experts selected by the European Commission. The next ECCOMAS congress will be held in Jwaskyla (Finland) in 2004.

s ECCOMAS will focus in the PROMUVAL project in the dissemination of the database outputs mainly, through the different activities of its member associations and within the different ECCOMAS conferences and congresses.

Definition of network objectives and specifications.
Contribution to definition of pilot software platform
Development of PROMUVAL guidelines
Participation in dissemination activities (workshops).