As of the 43rd ERF, the Chairman Award has been initiated, awarding the Best Paper with a focus on International Cooperation.
The winner will be invited to present the winning paper at the Asian/Australian Rotorcraft Forum (ARF).
| ERF | Year / Place | Winner | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 2023 Bückeburg | Not awarded. | |
| 48 | 2022 Winterthur | Anna Kostek, DLR, Germany | Experimental investigation of UAV rotor aeroacoustics and aerodynamics with computational cross-validation |
| 47 | 2021 Conference call (virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic) | Neda Taymourtash, Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Experimental Study of Rotor Loads in Ship Airwake: Comparison of Static and Dynamic Testing Approach |
| 45 | 2019 Warsaw | Armin Weiss, C. Christian Wolf, Kurt Kaufmann, Johannes N. Braukmann, Markus Raffel, Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, German Aerospace Center, DLR (Germany), James T. Heineck, NASA Ames Research Center (USA) | Unsteady Boundary-Layer Transition Measurements and Computations on a Rotating Blade Under Cyclic Pitch Condition |
| 44 | 2018 Delft | Laurent Binet, ONERA, France | Simulation tools for UAV/OPV autorotation performance metrics evaluation |
| 43 | 2017 Milan | Antonio Visingardi and others from CIRA (Italy), DLR (Germany), NLR (The Netherlands), NTUA (Greece), ONERA (France), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) | Forces On Obstacles In Rotor Wake – A GARTEUR Action Group |