Advanced Software Suite for Multidisciplinary Computation

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is evolving as a complement and sometimes an alternative to experimental procedures in the generation of design data for realistic aerospace systems. This is particularly the case for systems that seek to operate on theenvelope of performance capability with relatively slim safety factors. The Thaerocomp Technical Corporation (TTC) is proposing to develop next-generation software that will revolutionize practical CFD-based analyses by providing the capability forseamless multi-disciplinary simulation using highly accurate procedures. The software identifies, integrates, and then systematically upgrades common elements of major research codes, to yield a versatile high-order software suite that can be used tosimulate, in a coupled fashion, various elements of turbulence, electromagnetics, aeroacoustics, magnetogasdynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and chemically reacting flows. An elegant and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) will be developed, byleveraging experience derived from our flagship product INSTED. TTC's new tightly integrated and versatile product will reduce the simulation time by orders of magnitude and drastically reduce design cost of modern engineering systems requiringmulti-disciplinary optimization. The tool will facilitate out-of-the-box approaches by providing a validated realistic virtual environment and thus impact all major thrusts of the Air Vehicles Directorate, including access-to-space, sustainment, andunmanned air vehicles.