Italy, September 11, 2012

The main aim of the school is to develop an appropriate
methodology for the design and the optimization in external
aerodynamics problems in green-power engineering.

Description:

  

Objectives  

Thanks to the enormous developments of computational   

sciences, a computer aided engineering workflow seems   

to be a possible elective environment where to perform the   

study of external aerodynamic problems. Today a large part   

of the technological requirements needed to tackle these   

problems in a computational environment are already   

available in open source or commercial software.   

Nevertheless, success still strongly depends on technical   

knowledge and practice.   

  

The main aim of the school is to develop an appropriate   

methodology for the design and the optimization in external   

aerodynamics problems in green-power engineering.  

  

This four days school, focused on the technical aspects   

involved by wind turbine design and structured as an   

extended hands-on tutorial, is intended to walk the   

attendants through a complete analysis of a sample external   

aerodynamics application,design and optimization of a wind   

turbine blade, providing technical insights on each phase   

of the workflow.  

   

The main expected benefits for the course attendant are:  

enlarge their knowledge on state of art methods;  

apply best practices on state-of-the-art software usage;  

experience technical tips-and-tricks throughout the   

different phases of the tutorial sessions;  

learn from case history and practical applications told by   

experts.  

  

The course will therefore facilitate and speed-up in silico   

external aerodynamics research and Computational Fluid   

Dynamics driven green-power engineering.   

  

Audience  

The summer school is aimed to junior and senior engineers,   

scientists and PhD or postdoctoral students in the area of   

CAE engineering.   

  

Facilities  

The course will be held at CILEA a TOP500 ranked computing   

center located in Segrate (Milan, Italy). The center will   

offer advanced facilities in terms of hardware and software.   

The participants will be trained on desktop machines but   

High Performance Computing facilities will also be shown and   

introduced through lectures and their benefits to CAE   

product development will be discussed.  

  

Computational Tools  

Xfoil (open-source)  

Vsaero (Analytical Methods Inc.)  

Modelcenter (Phoenix Integration Inc. )  

Pointwise (Pointwise Inc.)  

Starccm+ or other (CD-Adapco Inc.)  

  

Course Material  

The course subscription is comprehensive of:  

Technical documentation  

Trial licenses (1 month of every sw used in the tutorials)  

Test cases, examples and benchmarks   

  

Course Schedule  

The course is made of lectures (about 30%) and tutorial   

sessions (about 70%) according to this scheduling:  

9.30-13.00 (one coffee break)  

14.30-18.00 (one coffee break)  

The lunch break is included in the school subscription.  

  

Rates and Number of participants  

The course rates are as follow:  

600 Euros academic or non-profit attendant;  

800 Euros industrial or private attendant.  

Please note that travel costs and accommodation are not   

included in the fee.   

A supplementary fee of 150 Euros will be applied for school   

subscription after July 13, 2012.  

The maximum number of participants is set to twenty and a   

minimum number of participants is also required to activate   

the school. The school activation will be given by July 20th   

2012 from the school secretariat.  

  

Teachers  

A. Porto, Porto Ricerca s.r.l  

M. Fontana, Porto Ricerca s.r.l  

R. Ponzini, CILEA  

S. Bartesaghi, Politecnico di Milano