Teresa Whiting
NASA Armstrong Public Affairs Specialist
A number of air taxi corporations are utilizing a NASA-developed laptop software program instrument to foretell plane noise and aerodynamic efficiency. This instrument permits producers working in fields associated to NASA’s Superior Air Mobility mission to see early within the plane growth course of how design parts like propellors or wings would carry out. This protects the trade money and time when making potential design modifications.
This NASA laptop code, referred to as “OVERFLOW,” performs calculations to foretell fluid flows resembling air, and the pressures, forces, moments, and energy necessities that come from the plane. Since these fluid flows contribute to plane noise, improved predictions may help engineers design quieter fashions. Producers can combine the code with their very own plane modeling packages to run completely different situations, quantifying efficiency and effectivity, and visually deciphering how the airflow behaves on and across the automobile. These interpretations can come ahead in a wide range of colours representing these behaviors.
This laptop program is on the market to trade 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
