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Development of Synthetic Jet Actuator Hardware for the Green Regional Aircraft Low Noise Configuration (VELOCIRAPTOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-15
End date: 2011-04-14
Duration (months): 14.0
Total project cost (EUR): 145682.4
EU funding (EUR): 109261.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Call JTI-CS-2009-1-GRA-02-003 requires an effective, efficient and reliable Synthetic Jet Actuator (SJA) system to be supplied as a complete plug-and play unit for wind tunnel testing. Based on recent experience gained in the EU FP6 AVERT programme in which this capability was demonstrated, the University of Manchester (UoM) proposes to develop such a system in conjunction with the manufacturing and windtunnel operational expertise of the Aircraft Research Association (ARA). The proposal has the potential to considerably advance the state of the art in SJA technology through use of a novel scalable cantilever based electro-mechanical conversion element. The AVERT system and others show that UoM and ARA will have the ability to produce an advanced system based on the best realization of the current diaphragm-based concept as a risk reduction measure, in order to ensure that the objectives of the call are met.

Keywords: synthetic jet actuator,single crystal membrane,cantilever beam,power efficiency,high authority,high power density
INTELLIGENT STRESS HEALTH MONITORING (INTELLI-SHM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Portugal
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 297727.0
EU funding (EUR): 223295.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project IntelliSHM will address the following topics: Design of an integrated SHM system, with reduced number of sensors, embedded solutions, Optimum location of sensors, Sensor fault detection by multi-scale methods, Improved diagnostic and prognostic tools. Also this proposal aims at developing a software package for designing sensorised composite panels for reliable detection of impact events. The proposed approach is based on the customization of proprietary VS2 technology, in order to develop enhanced diagnostics and prognostics capabilities.

Keywords: shm system,diagnostics and prognostics.
Structural design of a counter-rotating open rotor (DECROR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194150.0
EU funding (EUR): 145612.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project two fe-models for counter-rotating open rotors made from composites are needed. Before generating these models a structural design is necessary. IBK is a SME with a long tradition in both structural mechanics and aerodynamics. Consequently our customers come from areas where both parts of our knowledge are needed, which is among the aviation industry the turbine industry. IBK can therefore draw on long years of experience in the field that is needed here. Therefore a project is proposed, in which the disciplines of designing rotating devices (in this case an open rotor) and designing parts with composites (in this case the rotor blade) are united. IBK will start with an detailed analysis of the design problem of the rotor-blade, propose and discuss solution with the JTI-Consortium and develop a composite-design, using a modern, state of the art failure criterion which promises a high level of quality for the design. All relevant steps will be performed in close cooperation with the contractor, in order to ensure that all input for the project is accounted for.

Keywords: structural design,composites
WEights and MAnufacturing Costs (WEMACS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Portugal,Netherlands
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 77325.0
EU funding (EUR): 42897.78
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal dedicates its tasks to the specification, design and development of a software application to support the CLEANSKY Green Regional Aircraft Design. The WEMACS software suite is intended to become a high-tech, flexible and innovative tool to provide estimation on structural components. Existing know-how on parts will be used to provide accurate estimates on structural changes. The structures focus will be on the wings, fuselage pylons and tail of the aircraft. Parameters on size and geometry, weights and manufacturing costs shall be calculated with depth and accuracy. WEMACS shall obtain detailed weights for structural items taking baseline information previously obtained by conventional methods. It will also derive updated detailed information about costs to manufacture the aircraft. Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) philosophy is where WEMACS draws its foundation. KBE is the added innovative component in WEMACS, driving progress in the technological implementation of the knowledge management vision and strategy for the aircraft engineering business.

Keywords: software aircraft weights gra design costs kbe aeronautics skysoft
Design of innovative CROR blade and pylon (DINNO-CROR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 409930.0
EU funding (EUR): 305867.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

To fulfill the SFWA objectives of reduced engine noise, a major effort is required towards innovative noise control methodologies and improved predictive capability of the CFD/CAA software systems. The present project combines an experimental investigation of two, low TRL flow/noise control options, associated with an innovative and highly efficient numerical CFD/CAA approach. On the experimental side, the first noise control method, based on porous treatment of the blades, will be tested in an anechoic facility. The associated acoustic impedance will be determined as input for the CFD/CAA approach. The second concept relies on active blade surface to control the front rotor wake by actuators on the front rotor blade, possibly DBD plasma actuators. The wake characteristics behind the actuated blades will be tested in a cascade facility. On the numerical side, the DINNO-CROR proposal is based on an advanced new approach for the CFD determination of the noise sources and on the acoustic analogy for far-field noise propagation. While the CAA approach relies on a time domain formulation of the FW-H equations, the critical issue remains to deliver fast and accurate unsteady CFD-solutions for prediction of the noise sources. The DINNO-CROR project will apply the nonlinear harmonic method (NLH) which allows a gain in CPU compared to current CFD methodologies, of close to three orders of magnitude. This method has been largely validated and applied on multistage turbines and compressors, and its extension to CROR’s has recently been initiated. In the present project it will be further extended to include the physics of the investigated noise control systems. In TASK 2, the NLH methodology will be extended to model the interaction of the rotor with the pylon. For Concept 1, the boundary layer absorption will be modeled by introducing an impedance boundary conditions on the pylon; while for Concept 2, the non-radial pylon will be modeled directly as a solid surface.

Keywords: noise control nonlinear harmonic method cfd,caa
Using Local Inference in Massively Distributed Systems (LIFT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Italy,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495742.0
EU funding (EUR): 1891268.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

As the scale of today¿s networked techno-social systems continues to increase, the analysis of their global phenomena becomes increasingly difficult, due to the continuous production of streams of data scattered among distributed, possibly resource-constrained nodes, and requiring reliable resolution in (near) real-time. We will explore a novel approach for realising sophisticated, large-scale distributed data-stream analysis systems, relying on processing local data in situ. Our key insight is that, for a wide range of distributed data analysis tasks, we can employ novel geometric techniques for intelligently decomposing the monitoring of complex holistic conditions and functions into safe, local constraints that can be tracked independently at each node (without communication), while guaranteeing correctness for the global-monitoring operation. While some solutions exist for the limited case of linear functions of the data, it is hard to deal with general, non-linear functions: in this case, a node¿s local function value essentially tells us absolutely nothing about the global function value. Our fundamental idea is to design novel algorithmic tools that monitor the input domain of the global function rather than its range. Each node can then be assigned a safe zone (SZ) for its local values that can offer guarantees for the value of the global function over the entire collection of nodes. This represents a dramatic shift in conventional thinking and the state-of-the-art. We aim to reduce the amount of communication and data collection across nodes to a minimum, requiring nodes to communicate only when their local constraints are violated. Privacy protection, in the case when transmitted data contain sensitive information, is also revolutionized in our view. We investigate real-life scenarios from network health monitoring, large-scale analysis of human mobility and traffic phenomena, internet-scale distributed querying, and monitoring sensor networks.

Keywords: distributed computing,data mining,data streams
Forecasting Financial Crises (FOC-II)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,United States,Japan,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3778077.0
EU funding (EUR): 2894484.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

In this project we set up an interdisciplinary consortium of computer scientists, physicists, economists and policy makers to deal with the problem of understanding and forecasting systemic risk and global financial instabilities. By leveraging on expertise in the various disciplines, we want to provide a novel integrated and network-oriented approach to the issue. On one hand, we will offer a theoretical framework to measure systemic risk in global financial market and financial networks. On the other hand, we will deliver an ICT collaborative platform for monitoring systemic fragility and the propagation of financial distress across institutions and markets around the world. Experts will be able to evaluate algorithms and models to forecast financial crises as well as visualise interactively possible future scenarios.

Keywords: complex networks,resilience/fragility,forecasting,financial networks
SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL NANOSTRUCTURED METAL-SUPPORTED PHOTOCATALYSTS: CHARACTERIZATION AND PROMISING APPLICATIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH VALUE CHEMICALS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS (PHOTOBIO23JC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Heterogeneous photocatalysis offers a lot of possibilities to find the appropiate environmental friendly solutions for the problems affecting our society among them the energy´s problems. Researchers are still looking for a new routes to synthetize solid photocatalysts which will be able to transform more efficiently solar energy into chemical energy. In many developing countries, biomass is still a major energy source. The Roadmap for Biomass Technologies, authored by 26 leading experts from academia, industry, and government agencies, has predicted a gradual shift back to a carbohydrate-based economy. Biomass and biofuels appear to hold the key for satisfying the basic needs of our societies for the sustainable production of liquid fuels and chemicals without compromising the needs of future generations. In this research, I will work on novel routes of preparation of metal-nanostructured photocatalysts. The novelity of these methods of synthesis are based on the anchoring of metals such as Fe, Cr, Ti, Pd, Pt by the application of ultrasonic and photo-ultrasonic irradiation to obtain metal-nanostructured materials with specific properties. USY-Zeolite with high Si/Al molar ratio and Fumed-SiO2 will be used as carriers. Those carriers have interesting textural properties which are very helpful in hetero-photocatalysis and have not been yet broadly investigated. I will provide a complete characterization of all synthesized photocatalysts using a wide range of physico-chemical techniques (XRD, XPS, UV-vis, chemisorption, among others) and explore the potencial application in the specific example of selective conversion of glucose/xylose (model compounds of lignocellulosic biomass structure) to high value chemicals.

Keywords: chemical engineering,gaseous and liquid biofuels for transport,biomass processing,nanotechnology,environmental chemistry,heterogeneous catalysis,photochemistry,surface chemistry,solar chemistry
Coordinating cell differentiation and morphogenesis in a migrating tissue (MORPHOGENESIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2011-08-30
End date: 2014-08-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The formation of many organs involves the migration of cells in groups of different size and shape. Interestingly, these collective movements are also involved in metastatic processes in a variety of cancers. Yet how cells coordinate their behavior with that of their neighbors within moving groups is poorly understood. We use the posterior lateral line (pLL) of the Zebrafish as a model system to investigate how cell shape changes, differentiation, and directed tissue migration are functionally coupled during organ formation. During the second day of development of the zebrafish embryo, a group of about 100 cells, the pLL primordium (pLLP) migrate on both sides of the fish. As they migrate, subgroups of cells at the back assemble into rosette-like assemblies, the proneuromasts, that are progressively deposited behind and differentiate into the mechanosensory organs of the lateral line. Zebrafish embryos present the enormous advantage of being transparent at the beginning of their development. This, combined to superficial migration of the pLLP just under the skin makes this tissue an ideally suited model system for imaging complex morphogenetic movements in vivo. We have recently shown that the cellular rosettes are apically constricted epithelial clusters, radially organized around an fgf ligand-expressing cell. We further demonstrated that the FGF signaling pathway is required for cells to assemble into rosettes, and that in turn rosettes formation is a prerequisite for coordinated migration of the primordium. In order to understand how FGF signals drive cellular rosettes assembly, we will combine live cell imaging to genetics, mosaic analysis, pharmacological treatments and mathematical modeling to: (i) dissect the intracellular cascade downstream of Fgf (ii) perturb the morphogenetic process of rosettes assembly (iii) understand how fgf ligand expression gets restricted to single rosette-nucleating cell.

Keywords: natural sciences,developmental biology,zebrafish,cell biology,cell migration,morphogenesis,organogenesis,cell differentiation,live cell imaging,fgf,signaling
Role of the lysosomal dysfunction during aging, and implication for Parkinson’s Disease. (AGELYSPARK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-03
End date: 2013-12-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder with no proven neuroprotective or neurorestorative therapy. The most consistent risk factor for developing PD is increasing age. PD is a disease where substantial cell loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta occurs alongside the formation of Lewy Bodies (LB). Although LB represent a pathological hallmark of PD, their mechanisms of formation and significance for the disease process remain unknown. In Specific Aim (SA) I, we will assess the role of the lysosomal dysfunction during aging and in PD, and its implication in the cell death and in the process of aggregate formation relevant to PD. This project will be tested (i) in vitro, using senescence accelerated cells, in physiological conditions, with pharmacological and genetic inhibition of the lysosomal-mediated degradation pathway, and with different PD-related cellular alterations (ii) in vivo, using senescence-accelerated mouse, to promote age-dependent aggregates formation following exposure with PD-related cellular alterations. In SA II, we will study the ill-defined protein ATP13A2 which the mutations are associated with Hereditary Parkinsonism. We will characterize (i) in vitro the functions in physiologic situation and we will analyse the consequences of the ATP13A2 mutated proteins in the lysosomal function and in cell death. We will assess the implication of this protein towards the accumulation of non-degraded material and also aggregates formation (ii) in vivo with the generation of a transgenic mouse for the mutation of ATP13A2 on the long view. In SA III, we hypothesize that the presence of a pathogenic factor in the brain milieu could affect the aggregate formation and/or the death of dopaminergic neurons. This hypothesis will be tested (i) in vivo, by injecting filtrated fractions coming from cerebrospinal fluid from PD patients in non-human primates brains and we will let those animals getting older for years.
Microfluidic Chip (MICROFLUCHIP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 37500.0
EU funding (EUR): 37500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Microfluidic devices can integrate laboratory functions such as biomedical analysis on a single chip. They produce a huge market for the upcoming decades, as they seem to compete, rewardingly, benchtop instruments. Microfluidic devices became innovative as an increasing number of applications use microfluidic reactors for cultivating cells. Microfluidic devices might work with segmented flows where cells might be cultivated within miniaturized droplets, called droplet-bioreactors. MicroFluChip project targets the fabrication of a microfluidic chip capable of measuring electrically blood cells within droplet-bioreactors. For assessing the passive properties of the cells we intend to employ bioimpedance spectroscopy, which is a well-established method in biomedicine for measuring dielectric response of cells. Digital pulses with predefined spectral properties will be employed in this work. Integrated front-end electronics will condition the signals for performing online analysis with an analyzer or a signal processor. A network of microchannels, junctions and microelectrodes will direct the droplet-bioreactors, serially, into outlets for separation. Immiscible oil will be used as separation medium in order to prevent the droplets from merging and also to isolate their content from contamination. No surfactants are required for stabilizing the droplets. The microfluidic chip will be capable of measuring up to ten droplets per second serially, which enables high throughput processing for this class of devices. Our design allows oxygen and carbon dioxide to diffuse through the chip walls, which is essential for the metabolism of the cells. MicroFluChip is a highly multidisciplinary project and combines microfluidics, electronics and material technology. MicroFluChip project ensures the transfer of knowledge to Tallinn Technical University and offers the potential of introducing this technology into the local industry.

Keywords: microfluidic device,lab-on-chip,biomems,segmented flow,miniaturized bioreactor,bioimpedance,cytometry,seperation