Future of Engineering

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Airbus, CSIR (South Africa) Ally to Research Aircraft of the Future

Airbus and South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will spend about R1.5 million on research into next-generation aircraft.

Airbus said it had joined forces with the CSIR to conduct research into new technologies and processes in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

The one-year agreement between the leading commercial aircraft manufacturer and the CSIR aims to define and research technologies in numerical modelling that can contribute to the design of clean and efficient next-generation jetliners.

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