National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Small Business Innovation Research & Technology Transfer 2003 Program Solicitations
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T2.01 Atmospheric Flight Operations
T2.01 Atmospheric Flight Operations
Accurate simulation of aerospace vehicles’ flight characteristics is of great importance for both initial design and subsequent flight-testing. This topic focuses on R&D for multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation and for development of efficient software tools for aero-structures-controls-propulsion interaction simulation of flight vehicles. The benefit of this effort lies in ensuring flight safety, particularly during flight tests.
This topic solicits proposals for innovative, linear or non-linear, aerospace vehicles’ dynamic systems modeling and simulation techniques. In particular:
R&D in finite element based numerical simulation algorithms in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structures, heat transfer and propulsion disciplines, among others: In particular, emphasis is placed in the development and application of state-of-the-art, novel, and computationally efficient solution schemes that enable effective simulation of complex practical problems such as modern flight vehicles like X-43 and F-18-AAW as well as more routine problems encountered in recurring atmospheric flight testing on a regular daily basis. Furthermore, the effective use of high-performance computing equipment and computer graphics development is also considered as an important part of this topic.
Aeroelasticity and aeroservoelasticity, linear and non-linear: Vehicle stability analysis is an important aspect of this topic. Primary concern is with the development and application of novel, multidisciplinary, numerical finite element based interaction simulation software.
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