Multidisciplinary computational aerosciences

Abstract

Solution of the multidisciplinary computational aerosciences problems described above will go a long ways towards helping the aerospace industry fulfill its basic two objectives, that is, (1) to reduce the development cost and (2) to increase the performance, safety and environmental compatibility of aerospace vehicles and their components. The tasks are challenging but the CFD scientific community is poised to meet that challenge. Accomplishment of those lofty goals will require computers orders of magnitude larger and faster than those currently available. It will also require systems software that permits easy use of those computers. Massively parallel computers offer a means to meeting the multidisciplinary computational aeroscience objectives. The High- Performance Computing and Communications Program designed by NASA provides a framework and the resources necessary for systematically developing the requisite elements needed to successfully accomplish multidisciplinary simulations.