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Completed TRL 3 (started at 1, targeting 3)
The Turbulence, Transition, and Numerical Method Technologies effort identifies and down-selects critical turbulence, transition, and numerical method capability improvements that enable at least a 40% reduction in predictive error against standard test cases. The project will examine turbulent separated flows, evolution of free shear flows, and shock-boundary layer interactions utilizing state-of-the-art high performance computing hardware.
The development of physics-based computational tools envisioned in Revolutionary Computational Aerosciences will yield a number of benefits: deliver a capability to the aeronautics community to improve designs and reduce design cycle times; accelerate introduction of advanced air vehicles and propulsion systems into the airspace system; enable simulation and certification by analysis, thereby reducing flight testing and resulting in savings of up to $1B from an aircraft development program.
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