NASA pushes the boundaries of Computational Fluid Dynamics with PowerFLOW
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 | Exa® Corporation announced that NASA is expanding its usage of PowerFLOW® for the simulation of concepts to reduce aircraft noise within NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation project. PowerFLOW predictions were successfully validated against high-fidelity wind-tunnel tests in 2013, and now, after the cancellation of a planned flight test due to budget constraints, NASA is using PowerFLOW simulations of a full-scale aircraft with flap and landing gear noise treatments to reach the original airframe noise objectives of the project. "We are raising the bar with full-scale simulations," remarked Mehdi Khorrami, Senior Research Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center. "This is challenging stuff, at the frontiers of computational fluid dynamics," he continued. "The simulations of the full-scale aircraft with noise reduction concepts will help recover a significant part of the loss of the flight test. In addition, the simulations provide valuable insight into the sources of airframe noise." More Information: globenewswire.com/news |