AeroGust is a 4.2M Euro state of the art engineering computer simulation project that is led by the University of Bristol and brings together a total of 12 organisations across 7 countries. The project is investigating gust interactions with aircraft and aims to develop innovative methods that allow radical aircraft design changes.

For the European aerospace and defence industry to remain competitive in the future, the gust loads process needs to evolve to be quicker and to include more complex physics to create leading products. The current approach relies on expensive wind tunnel testing that incorporates gust loads relatively late, when the aircraft design options have been narrowed. AeroGust aims to change this by producing more accurate simulation-based gust loads process using reduced order models (ROMs) that will decrease reliance on wind tunnel testing - cutting lead times and helping to produce superior products at lower cost.