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KTH is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden accounting for one third of the total higher technical education. The university has nearly 11 000 undergraduate students, 1 300 active postgraduate students and a staff of 2 900 people. KTH conducts education and research of a broad spectrum: from natural science to all branches of technology. KTH is a truly international institution with established research and educational collaboration all over the world, especially in Europe, the USA, Australia and Southeast Asia.
KTH will participate in AeroAfrica-EU through the Aerodynamics Division of the Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering Department, which is the only department in Sweden that offers an aeronautics curriculum leading to the MSc. and higher degrees. The department has been teaching this curriculum continuously since 1919, and its graduates have taken employment at Saab Aircraft to design truly renowned aircraft, the latest the J-39 Gripen, the first operational 4th generation fighter.
Research activities in the department fall within two main categories: the first is applied aerodynamics where new and unconventional design concepts are investigated by simulation, and the second is developmental CFD where new methods and features are implemented into the structured-mesh (RANS) flow solver NSMB and the unstructured flow solver EDGE, provided by FOI.
Recent doctoral students have developed, among other tools, the TORNADO vortex-lattice code and the QCARD system for aircraft conceptual design.
The department has been active in the EU's research, training and education programs for many years, e.g. in FP5 with participation in HELIX and the MOB projects, and in the FP6 REMFI, 3AS, HISAC, NACRE and SimSAC projects.
KTH will be responsible for tasks within WP2, and play a supporting role in the other work packages.
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