Particularly concerned with reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the aeronautic industry designs structures and materials to preserve laminar flow and reduce drag. Controlling laminar flow is a way of ensuring that the air flows around certain parts of the aircraft in parallel layers, and can reduce fuel consumption by 5 to 10%. At the leading edges of aircraft wings, insects hitting and sticking to the surface act as boundary layer disturbances that lead to a loss of laminarity. The accumulation of insect debris on the leading edge of laminar wings has been recognised as one of the most significant operational problems associated with laminar flow. Over the years, various approaches have been proposed, including the use of coatings to mitigate insect contamination and preserve laminar flow.
WORKSHOP - Advancing Insect Contamination Mitigation for Laminar Wings: Innovations in Coating and Testing Technologies
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Waterloosesteenweg 72, 1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
08:30 - 18:00
8h30 - 09h00 Registration
9h00 - 09h20 Welcome
9h20 - 09h40 General introduction – CHOPIN and STELLAR Projects
Murielle Poelman, Materia Nova
9h40 - 10h00 Clean Aviation Current and future Challenges
S. Shroff / V. Selmin, Clean Aviation
10h00 - 12h00 Session: Coating development
10h00 - 10h30 Omniphobic coatings: low adhesion surfaces for anticontamination
Marta Fenero Bisquez, Cidetec
10h30 -10h50 Hybrid ceramic-like coating by sol gel for long term anti-adhesion properties
Mireille Poelman, Materia Nova
10h50 - 11h10 Coffee break
11h10 - 11h30 Functionalized self-healing polyurethane coating
Loan Terrien and Anne-Pascale Romano, Materia Nova
11h30 - 11h50 Experiences on cleanability and erosion resistance
Silke Gruenke, Airbus GMBH
11h50 - 12h20 Roundtable
12h20 - 13h40 Lunch
13h40 -17h00 Session: Testing and monitoring
13h40-14h00 Biochemical modification of hemolymph during coagulation process according to different abiotic factor
Baptiste Martinet, Corentin Decroo, Ruddy Wattiez, UMONS
14h00 – 14h20 Biomimetic Analogs for Insect Contamination Studies : a route towards standardisation
Claire Perfetti, Valérie Tommen, Carlo Saverio Iorio, ULB
14h20 – 15h00 Insect contamination testing under simulated conditions: Climatic chamber and wind tunnel tests
Sara Gonzalez Ruiz and Gertjan Glabeke, VKI
15h00 - 15h20 Coffee break
15h20 – 15h40 Chasing insects with drones. Results and lessons learned
Stian Solbø, NORCE
15h40 – 16h00 Validation of STELLAR coatings under real conditions : short and long flight tests
Donatienne Ghysselinckx, SONACA
16h00 – 16h30 Roundtable - Conclusions
16h30 - 16h40 Short break
16h40 - 18h00 Visit of the von Karman Institute's laboratories
Locatie: von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Waterloosesteenweg 72, 1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Taal: EN
Organisator: STELLAR project (CLEANSKY)
E-mail: secretariat@vki.ac.be
Registration deadline : 6 October 2023