High Lift Prediction Workshop

What is the High Lift Prediction Workshop?

The NASA High Lift Prediction Workshop (HLPW) is a collaborative event that brings together researchers and engineers from industry, government and academia to address the challenges of accurately predicting the aerodynamic performance of high-lift devices on aircraft.

High-lift systems are essential for safe and efficient takeoff and landing of aircraft, and their design and optimization requires accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) predictions. However, CFD predictions for high-lift systems can be challenging due to their complex geometry and flow physics.

The HLPW provides a platform for researchers to present their work, exchange ideas and collaborate on the development of high-fidelity CFD methods for predicting high-lift performance. The workshop is held periodically, and the most recent one was the 4th NASA High Lift Prediction Workshop, which was held in 2019.

4th High Lift Prediction Workshop (HLPW-4)

The 4th Workshop (HLPW-4) was held in 2019, and it focused on the improvement of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) predictions for high-lift systems, which are used to generate additional lift on aircraft during takeoff and landing.

The workshop included the analysis of different high-lift configurations, such as multi-element airfoils and flaps, and assessed the performance of various CFD codes in predicting aerodynamic characteristics. Some participants in the workshop also discussed the use of high-fidelity simulation techniques, such as large eddy simulation (LES) and detached eddy simulation (DES), for high-lift simulations.

During the last year of my MEng degree I was given the opportunity to be part of the University of the West of Englands team taking part in the 4th AIAA High Lift Prediction Workshop and thus it became the subject of my final year dissertation.
I joined the UWE team under the supervision of Professor Yufeng Yao, head of the Engineering Modelling and Simulation research Group at UWE.