SBIR/STTR Research Award
30 POSTPROCESSING FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Amtec Engineering Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) METHODS GENERATE VAST AMOUNTS OF NUMERICAL DATA THAT MUST BE DISPLAYED GRAPHICALLYFOR USE. CURRENT GRAPHICAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS CAN DISPLAY DATA ONLY ON LINES OR ON SURFACES DEFINED IN THE COMPUTATIONAL GRID. CFD SOFTWARE USERS DESIRE TO DISPLAY CFD DATA ON ARBITRARY SURFACES THAT MAY NOT CONFORM WITH THE COMPUTATIONAL GRID. A SOFTWARE PROGRAM WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT ALLOWS USERS TO DISPLAY CFD DATA ON ARBITRARY, USER-DEFINED SURFACES. THIS PROGRAM WILL BE BASED UPON THE COMPANY'S EXISTING INTERACTIVE PLOTTING SOFTWARE CALLED TECPLOT. IT WILL WORK WITH DATA DEFINED IN MULTIBLOCK, FINITE-DIFFERENCE OR FINITE-ELEMENT COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) METHODS GENERATE VAST AMOUNTS OF NUMERICAL DATA THAT MUST BE DISPLAYED GRAPHICALLYFOR USE. CURRENT GRAPHICAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS CAN DISPLAY DATA ONLY ON LINES OR ON SURFACES DEFINED IN THE COMPUTATIONAL GRID. CFD SOFTWARE USERS DESIRE TO DISPLAY CFD DATA ON ARBITRARY SURFACES THAT MAY NOT CONFORM WITH THE COMPUTATIONAL GRID. A SOFTWARE PROGRAM WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT ALLOWS USERS TO DISPLAY CFD DATA ON ARBITRARY, USER-DEFINED SURFACES. THIS PROGRAM WILL BE BASED UPON THE COMPANY'S EXISTING INTERACTIVE PLOTTING SOFTWARE CALLED TECPLOT. IT WILL WORK WITH DATA DEFINED IN MULTIBLOCK, FINITE-DIFFERENCE OR FINITE-ELEMENT COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS.
Technology keywords
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