Onera's teams had begun studies which would contribute to define and design the plane even before" the A3XX" project was launched in August 1994. For the last 10 years, some 340 Onera staff members have been involved in the development of the A380. Onera has also provided its outstanding testing facilities and its most sophisticated modeling and simulationtools, which contributed greatly to the success of the A380 program
The results of this contest, published in the journal Journal of Composite Materials in March 2013, greatly contribute to the reputation of the winning laboratory, as shown by the previous edition (WWFE I). This public evaluation is very much appreciated by manufacturers, who take it into account when choosing their simulationtools
That's why ONERA has decided to develop a set of numerical simulationtools in order to be able to predict (the aeroacoustic) noise generated by any wing profile, and even a full plane. The above figure shows the result of a simulation using a new propagation tool, which allows the high-order coupling of curvilinear and cartesien grids
