End of the European project AEROFAST relating to Martian aerocapture. Thanks to its expertise in aerothermodynamics, ONERA has selected a design by numerical simulation that will allow orbiters to be economically placed in orbit around Mars.

A first for the CFD software elsA: the calculation of a complete civil transport aircraft in high-lift configuration

An acoustic propagation calculation with hybrid coupling meshing methods has shown the importance of the process for industrial applications 

An ONERA team of specialists in electromagnetic compatibility gathered in Kourou in April 2011 to qualify the Soyuz launch site in regard to lightning protection 

Onera is developing perfectly transparent ceramics for applications in the aerospace and defense sectors where requirements are rigorous in terms of mechanical and thermal resistance. 

Collaboration between ONERA, the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory and the IRSN to improve knowledge of natural radiation environments and their dynamics

Velocity measurements using high-repetition-rate stereoscopic PIV make it possible to observe the large scale dynamics of jet turbulence in a wind tunne, opening the way to progress in the understanding of jet noise generation. 

Denis Gratias, associate director of the Microstructures Research Laboratory (LEM), is one of the pioneers in quasicrystals. He is in fact one of the co-authors of the publication that made Dan Shechtman’s discovery public (Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry 2011).

More reliable and more efficient, this laser will have direct application in gas spectrometry. Other application fields: ophthalmic surgery.