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Predicting heat transfer during turbine startup: using CFD to increase accuracy

April 21, 2021

Flexible turbine operation patterns are increasing the thermal stress on components. How can simulation help?

By Elspeth Mosedale
3 MIN READ

DFAN testing: Resist the direct acoustic field for a ticket to space

April 1, 2021

Read about Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) testing of space hardware. Learn where we came from and where we are today with the technology.

By Mostapha Choukri
5 MIN READ

Containing aircraft engine failure

March 30, 2021

Accounting for the unbalanced load by the use of rotor dynamics software ensured the engine failure of UA 328 was contained.

By Ganesh Sethuraman
2 MIN READ
DIC pattern on aircraft during GVT

Digital Image Correlation (DIC) for Aircraft GVT

March 22, 2021

The DIC technique offers capabilities to accelerate modal testing and get deeper insights into structural dynamics during aircraft GVT.

By Raphael Hallez
4 MIN READ
Perseverance Touching Down on Mars

Perseverance: what’s the weather on Mars?

March 11, 2021

Centro de Astrobiología – INTA uses Simcenter FLOEFD to design the MEDA weather station on the Perseverance rover

By Mike Croegaert
5 MIN READ

Three reasons why aerospace CFD in the cloud gets you ready for take-off

March 3, 2021

Resurgence of a classic tool What do wind tunnels and vinyl records have in common? Well, we consider both old…

By shyam.patel.ext
6 MIN READ

Personal invites for the Testing in the digital age conference

February 9, 2021

‘Testing in the digital age‘ conference is fast approaching. One of the bright sides of the current pandemic is that…

By Alex Vermeulen
8 MIN READ
Gas Turbine CFD requires sophisticated data vizualization

Gas Turbine CFD – Driving Innovation with Data and Insight

February 2, 2021

Once upon a time in a world without gas turbine CFD simulation…

Manager: The design team came up with a new blade concept, but they need to know the maximum possible temperature in the machine.
Test engineer: Uhh…

By ChadCuster
8 MIN READ
Airbus Helicopters H160 ANH

Airbus Helicopters: simulation and virtual aircraft

January 19, 2021

We sat down with Nicolas Damiani, an expert in simulation and operational analysis with Airbus Helicopters, to talk about the future of digitalization.

By Olga Korosteleva
6 MIN READ