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AERO Suite
Realistic, multi-physics simulations thought to be unfeasible are enabled by AERO Suite at both ends of the computing spectrum: using high-fidelity computational models for maximum accuracy, and reduced-order computational models for maximum speed. With AERO Suite, CFD-based analysis of flutter, buffeting, trimming, maneuvering, acceleration, deceleration, aeroservoelastic control, aerothermal, aerothermoelastic, and many other fluid-structure and fluid-thermal-structure interaction problems can be performed with unprecedented level of flow, structural, and thermal details, using the latest computational and HPC technologies.
AERO Suite is based on results from two decades of research that have redefined the state-of-the-art of computational engineering and science, high performance computing, and model order reduction. Learn more.
AERO Suite Modules
AERO-F is a three-dimensional, domain-decomposition-based, compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes solver with turbulence modeling capabilities. It can simulate single-material and highly nonlinear multi-material flow problems involving arbitrary structural systems. To this effect, AERO-F can model a fluid as a perfect or pseudo-incompressible gas (possibly going through porous media and/or subjected to a discrete gust wind), a stiffened gas, a barotropic liquid or gas governed by Tait's Equation of State (EOS), a medium governed by Tillotson's EOS, or air at thermochemical equilibrium. Using various level set techniques, it is capable of capturing arbitrary material interfaces, including fluid-structure interfaces undergoing large motions and/or deformations and crack propagation. Learn more.
AERO-S is a high-performance structural/thermal analyzer based on the finite element method. It is capable of performing linear and geometrically nonlinear static, vibration (eigen), and dynamic analyses of restrained, partially restrained, and unrestrained homogeneous and composite structures. It features a comprehensive library of one-, two-, and three-dimensional finite elements for structural/thermal problems. It is equipped for communication with itself to perform high-fidelity, high-accuracy, thermal-structure (thermoelastic) analysis. It is also equipped for communication with the flow analyzer AERO-F to perform high-fidelity, high-accuracy, fluid-structure, fluid-thermal (aerothermal), and fluid-thermal-structure (aerothermoelastic) analyses. Learn more.
MATCHER is essential for the application of AERO-F and AERO-S to a multi-physics analysis. It enables these two computational modules to properly exchange aerodynamic, elastodynamic, and thermal data across non-matching discrete fluid/structure interfaces. Learn more.
SOWER is a pre- and post-processor for the computational modules AERO-F and AERO-S. It generates the appropriate binary input files needed for the (parallel) execution of these two software modules. It also assembles the distributed binary output (result) files generated by AERO-F and/or AERO-S and converts them into the ASCII format for visualization purposes. Learn more.
AERO-I is a Graphical User Interface that simplifies and automates input preparation. It organizes simulations into projects and folders, and enables data-reuse between different but related computations. It imports NASTRAN data files, and exports AERO Suite results in the VisIt or XPost format. Learn more.