Aerospace Applications

Productivity - Accuracy - Flexibility - Experience
What do you expect from your engineering simulation software?

Plume Analysis

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Productivity
Cut weeks off your model turnaround time without compromising accuracy. CD-adapco software has the fastest and most robust surface wrapping technology on the market; state-of-the-art automatic volume meshing (including advanced hexahedra and polyhedra); and scalable parallel solutions to leverage fully your hardware.

Accuracy
Validation! Validation! Validation!
For over 25 years CD-adapco has been on the cutting edge of engineering simulation. The methods and algorithms implemented in our products have been repeatedly tested and validated by our own engineers and our customers. Our focus on accuracy is not limited to numerical algorithms. CD-adapco continues to lead the way in meshing technology and the development of best practices for industrial use.

Flexibility
From rotorcraft to re-entry... From ECS to UAV... From aeroacoustics to aeroelastics...
The ability to deal with flow conditions ranging from subsonic to hypersonic, and anything in between, allows CD-adapco to solve the wide range of specialized multiphysics problems encountered in the aerospace industry. This unrivaled breadth of modeling capability makes CD-adapco unique in our ability to provide solutions that truly span the aerospace industry.
 
Experience
As one the world’s largest employers of CFD and CAE expertise, partnering with CD-adapco lets you tap into a collection of the world’s leading experts. Over 50 % of our dedicated aerospace team is educated to PhD level, and with the vast majority of them having worked for major aerospace companies from around the world, we’re guaranteed to understand your problem and speak your language.

Key Applications:

External Aerodynamics (all speed regimes) High Lift Internal Flows Thermal Management Aeroacoustics Stability and Control Aerooptics Tank Sloshing		VOF Plume Analysis Multi-Species Propeller Simulation Heat Exchangers Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) Combustion

Our Commitment to the Aerospace Industry:

“CD-adapco remains committed to the aerospace industry. I can assure our friends in the aerospace engineering community that we will continue to leverage our experience and expertise in order to provide solutions that have the flexibility to accurately solve this industry’s broad range of flow, thermal, and stress problems with unprecedented efficiency.”

- Steve MacDonald, CD-adapco President and Founder

Aerospace Case Studies

Flapping Airfoil Analysis of Micro Air Vehicles using STAR-CD

STAR-CCM+  enables ICON to develop complete-cabin CFD simulation process for Airbus

CAD embedded CAE simulation: Enables design for Six Sigma (DFSS)

STAR-CCM+ : Ready for take off

Improving hydraulic systems using CFD

STAR-CAT5 helps to design “coolest business jet ever”

Helicopter flow field technology

es-turbo, for rotating machinery

es-fsi, fluid-structure interaction

Aeroacoustics in STAR-CD

STAR-CCM+ Licence to thrill

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