Dr. Berend G. van der Wall, Senior Expert Rotorcraft, DLR—The German Aerospace Center (center) received the VFS Technical Fellow award from outgoing Executive Director Mike Hirschberg (left) and Chair of the Board Tomasz Krysinski (Airbus) on May 18, 2023. He received the award for advancing rotary-wing technology through technical leadership and research, and progressing comprehensive simulation code capabilities, while pushing forward the understanding of unsteady airfoil aerodynamics, blade vortex interaction (BVI), the effect of higher harmonic control on BVI and vibration, using experimental and analytical approaches. (VFS photo by Warren Liebmann. CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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