11-14 September  edition canceled
The school will be held at the CILEA center in via R. Sanzio, 4 Segrate (Milan), Italy.

Thanks to the enormous developments of computational sciences, a computer-aided–engineering (CAE) workflow seems to be a possible elective environment where to perform the study of external aerodynamic problems. Today a large part of the technological requirements needed to tackle these problems in a computational environment are already available in open source and/or commercial software. Nevertheless, success still strongly depends on technical knowledge and practice.

The main aim of the school is to develop an appropriate methodology for the design and the optimization in external aerodynamics problems in green-power engineering.

This four days school, focused on the technical aspects involved by wind turbine design and structured as an extended hands-on tutorial, is intended to walk the attendants through a complete analysis of a sample external aerodynamics application (design and optimization of a wind turbine blade), providing technical insights on each phase of the workflow.
The main expected benefits for the course attendant are:

• enlarge their knowledge on state of art methods;
• apply best practices on state-of-the-art software usage;
• experience technical tips-and-tricks throughout the different phases of the tutorial sessions;
• learn from case history and practical applications told by experts.

The course will therefore facilitate and speed-up in silico external aerodynamics research and Computational Fluid Dynamics driven green-power engineering.

The summer school is aimed to junior and senior engineers, scientists and PhD or postdoctoral students in the area of CAE engineering.

The course will be held at CILEA a TOP500 ranked computing center located in Segrate (Milan, Italy). The center will offer advanced facilities in terms of hardware and software. The participants will be trained on desktop machines but High Performance Computing facilities will also be shown and introduced through lectures and their benefits to CAE product development will be discussed.

• Xfoil (open-source)
• Vsaero (Analytical Methods Inc.)
• Modelcenter (Phoenix Integration Inc. )
• Pointwise (Pointwise Inc.)
• Starccm+ or other (CD-Adapco Inc.)

The course subscription is comprehensive of:

• Technical documentation.
• Trial licenses (1 month of every sw used in the tutorials).
• Test cases, examples and benchmarks.

The course is made of lectures (about 30%) and tutorial sessions (about 70%) according to this scheduling:

• 9.30-13.00 (one coffee break)
• 14.30-18.00 (one coffee break)

The lunch break is included in the school subscription.

The course rates are as follow:

• 600 € academic or non-profit attendant;
• 800 € industrial or private attendant.

Please note that travel costs and accommodation are not included in the fee.
A supplementary fee of 150 € will be applied for school subscription after July 13, 2012.
Maximum number of participants 20, a minimum number of participants is also required to activate the school. The school activation will be given by July 20th 2012 from the school secretariat (school website and mail).