Accelerating Defense Innovation of Military Aircraft with
Computational Prototypes and High Performance Computing
Speaker
Event Type
HPC Impact Showcase
TimeThursday, November 16th11:30am -
12pm
Location501-502
DescriptionThe CREATE Air Vehicles Project has been developing and
deploying three tools: 1) Kestrel, a high-fidelity,
full-vehicle, multi-physics, analysis tool for
fixed-wing aircraft, 2) Helios, a similar capability for
rotary-wing aircraft, and 3) CREATE Genesis-DESIGN, a
conceptual design tool. This talk focuses on the use of
Kestrel. Kestrel is a multi-physics code that includes
the unique ability to calculate the combined effects of
sub-sonic, transition, and supersonic aerodynamics,
structural dynamics, flight control through control
surfaces, and propulsion systems (gas-turbine engines).
Kestrel has been used to predict flight performance
prior to construction, evaluate planned operational
scenarios, perform flight certifications, and plan and
rehearse test campaigns. Kestrel has been applied to the
analysis of over 30 fixed-wing DoD aviation systems
including store separation, A-10, F-18E, F-15, B-52,
E-2D, P-3, and many others. In all cases, the
combination of supercomputing hardware with
high-fidelity, multi-physics engineering codes have been
critical to application success. Examples of a subset of
these applications will be presented.
