Future aerospace working scenarios using high speed networks and supercomputers applied to flow simulation for complete aircraft

Abstract

Aeronautical industry depends on heavy numerical simulation for performance optimization of aircraft beeing designed. In Europe, aircraft conception more and more depends upon effective cooperation between a number of industry and research partners. An effective way to enhance global competitivity is to enable activation of the best simulation tools existing across the community, for definition of a given product. In the scope of this paper we describe the impact that numerical flow simulation already has on the design process of civil transports at DA. It will be demonstrated that, in order to fully exploit the potential of the simulation methods, the interconnection of various design teams with each other and remote supercomputers via a broadband network is a prerequisit. The PAGEIN soft- and hardware environment, that allows international cooperative working in the field of CFD based on international networking, will be presented