The multi-disciplinary character at Onera

The Federating Research Projects

The Onera is a targeted research body and is therefore essentially multi-disciplinary. For a little over 10 years this potential has been exploited through self-financed multi-disciplinary research projects. These projects are generally generated using a bottom up approach and are therefore well up on scientific current events, but they are also part of an orientation approach specific to the Office and consistent with industrial requirements.

• The Federating Research Projects, carried out within ONERA after stringent selection, are the subject of a 4-year financial commitment; they are often positioned at a pre-application level which means that their natural extension is a contract.

• The Federative Aerospace  Research Projects associate partner laboratories (CNRS) with ONERA and are positioned a little further upstream.

Several projects have reached such a level of maturity that ONERA can now plan developments in the context of different applications in partnership with interested industries, governments or academia:

• Multi-satellite orbital radars for surveillance (ROMULUS)
• Plasma control for electromagnetism
• Plasmas for aerodynamics flow control (PUMA)
• Multi-disciplinary tooled optimization approach (DOOM)
• Designs for reusable orbital transfer vehicles (CENTOR)

Recently, the transverse structure constituted by PRFs was strengthened by setting up coordinated research axes which aim to develop a coordinated complementary capabilities network within ONERA either to form a multi-disciplinary virtual laboratory or to develop a methodological base common to several disciplines, or even to capitalize on the coordinated knowledge.

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