Teresa Whiting
NASA Armstrong Public Affairs Specialist
A number of air taxi corporations are utilizing a NASA-developed laptop software program device to foretell plane noise and aerodynamic efficiency. This device permits producers working in fields associated to NASA’s Superior Air Mobility mission to see early within the plane improvement course of how design components like propellors or wings would carry out. This protects the business money and time when making potential design modifications.
This NASA laptop code, known as “OVERFLOW,” performs calculations to foretell fluid flows corresponding to air, and the pressures, forces, moments, and energy necessities that come from the plane. Since these fluid flows contribute to plane noise, improved predictions will help engineers design quieter fashions. Producers can combine the code with their very own plane modeling applications to run completely different eventualities, quantifying efficiency and effectivity, and visually deciphering how the airflow behaves on and across the car. These interpretations can come ahead in quite a lot of colours representing these behaviors.
This laptop program is obtainable to business for U.S. launch through the software program.nasa.gov web site.
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Joby Aviation.
Joby Aviation
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Wisk.
Wisk
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Archer Aviation.
Archer Aviation
