CENTRELINE
Prandtlplane ARchitecture for the Sustainable Improvement of Future AirpLanes
Funding: Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-MG-2016-2017 Breakthrough Innovation
Duration: 2017-2020
Project partners: Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Airbus, Arttic, Chalmers University of Technology, MTU Aero Engines, Politechnika Warszawska, Rolls-Royce, Delft University of Technology, University of Cambridge.
Team
Prof. dr. A. (Arvind) Gangoli Rao
PI
✉ A.GangoliRao@tudelft.nl
B. (Biagio) Della Corte, MSc
✉ B.DellaCorte@tudelft.nl
M. (Martijn) van Sluis, MSc
✉ M.vanSluis@tudelft.nl
Objective
CENTRELINE (Concept validation study for fuselage wake-filling propulsion integration) is a research project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. CENTRELINE investigates the application of boundary-layer ingestion to a commercial aircraft, with the goal of reducing the fuel burn. The project is developing a so-called propulsive fuselage concept, a conventional tube-and-wing aircraft with an hybrid-electric boundary-layer-ingesting propulsor mounted at the aft-fuselage section.
CENTRELINE sees a collaboration of well-recognized research and industrial institutions, each contributing with a specific field of expertise. We are responsible for the aerodynamic design, analysis and optimization of the aircraft concept, through high-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics calculations and wind-tunnel experiments.
More information about the project is available on the project website and in a Euronews article/video interview.