. Work package 1 - Multifunction analysis
The final report of task 1-1 " Report on Multifunction requirements " is ready to be issued in October 1998. This document will be the result of a user survey (Aircraft manufacturers, Operators, Pilots, Airports, Official Authorities).
A prioritisation of applications, taking into account the operational needs of the users and the technical feasibility of a future multifunction equipment has been done.
The task 1.2 " Equipment preliminary definition " will start since the task 1-1 report will be issued.
. Workpackage 2 - Demonstrator
Task 2-1 " Demonstrator development ", based on a 2 µm lidar, is well running and first ground tests will be performed between November 1998 and January 1999.
. Workpackage 3 - Techniques and Technologies
Task 3-1 about crystal lasers, Fiber optics, and optical system design, is well running.
Task 3-2 concerns wake vortex simulations and is near to be completed.
Task 3-3, dedicated to Processing Algorithms, has shown, linked to task 3-2 results, the identification of wake vortices with airborne and ground based MFLAME system.
. Workpackage 4 - Operational aspects
Task 4-1, Severity factor definition, was planned from September 1998 and is presently ahead of schedule.
. Organisation of an interntional workshop on " Wake vortices " at CERFACS and STNA, December 5 and 6, 1996.
. Invited lecture at the " First NASA Workshop on Wake Vortex Dynamic Spacing ", May 13-15, 1997 - " Large eddy simulations of rebound and ageing of 3D Wake vortices within the atmospheric boundary layer " A. CORJON, D. DARRACQ and F. DUCROS.
. 15th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Atlanta (GA), June, 23-25, 1997 - " 3D Large Eddy simulations of wake vortices. Comparison with field measurements " A. CORJON, D. DARRACQ, P. VENZAC, P. BOUGEAULT.
. 28th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Snowmass (CO), June 29 - July, 2, 1997 - " 3D instability of wake vortices near the ground " A. CORJON, A. STOESSEL.
. Organisation of an international workshop on " Wake vortices " at Airbus, July 15 and 16, 1997.
. Invited lecture at the " First Transport Canada International Workshop on Wake Vortex ", December 2-4, 1997 - " Atmopheric turbulence and wake vortices " A. CORJON, D. DARRACQ and F. DUCROS.
. Industrial Technologies Conference and Third Aero-Days, Toulouse 27-30 October 1997.
* Enhanced Aircraft Operation and Safety/wake vortex - On board systems for detection of atmospheric hazards - MFLAME - presented by H. COMBE, SEXTANT Avionique (France),
* Airport of the Future-Technologies to increase the Airport Capacity - Multifunction Future Laser Atmospheric Measurement Equipment (MFLAME) - presented by E. LEWIS, GEC Marconi Avionics (G.B.).
. 36th AIAA Conference, Reno (NV), January, 12-15, 1998 - " Three-dimensional Numerical Simulations of Wake Vortices Detection with the MFLAME 2 microns Lidar " D. DARRACQ, A. CORJON, F. DUCROS and M. KEANE.
. 970nm diode pumped Yb, Tm and Yb, Ho : YAG laser in the 2 µm spectral region (1996)
A DIENING, B-M. DICKS, E. HEUMANN, R. GROb ang G. HUBER Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
. Airborne Wind Shear Detection with the MFLAME 2 µm Lidar (1997)
Mike KEANE & Michael REDFERN, Applied Imaging Research Group, Depatment of Experimental Physics, University College Galway, Ireland.
. Tm : YAG : A comparison between endpumped Laser-rods and the " Thin-Disk "-Setup (1998).
N.BERNER, A. DIENING, E. HEUMANN and G. HUBER
Institut für Laser-Physiq, Univertität HAMBURG, Germany.
A. VOSS_, M. KARSZEWSKI1 and A. GIESEN1
1 Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge, Universität Stuttgart (Germany)
_ Forschungsgesellschaft für Strahlwerkzeuge, Stuttgart (Germany)
. Wake Vortex Detection with Airborne Doppler Lidar (1998)
Denis DARRACQ, Alexandre CORJON, Frédéric DUCROS
CERFACS, Toulouse (France)
Mike KEANE, Daniel BUCKTON and Mike REDFERN
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)