The aerospace sector has traditionally been a major user of HPC. Large scale aerodynamic and electrical simulations have been used to help design more efficient aircraft. These simulations can require large amounts of computing power, in terms of processing power and storage. EPCC has worked with some of the leading industry players in this sector…
ANSE (1992 - 1994)
In the mid 1990’s EPCC and Rolls Royce worked on a series of projects to develop the ANSE Computational Fluid Dynamics software. ANSE is used by Roll Royce to analyse aircraft parts, in particular engines. Designed initially for use on vector supercomputers, Rolls Royce were interested to see whether ANSE could be adapted to use […]
FLITE3D (1994 -1997)
EPCC’s FLITE project was a collaboration with the Avro Division of British Aerospace (BAe), Regional Aircraft and BAe’s Sowerby Research Centre (SRC).
FLITE is a Computational Fluid Dynamics code, written and modified by Imperial College, Swansea University and BAe’s SRC. FLITE is used in the design of military and commercial aircraft to analyse the aerodynamics […]
PTLM (1993 -1995)
PTLM is a computational electromagnetic numerical simulation code that uses a large, regular 3D grid to model electromagnetic fields in and around aircraft structures. It is an important design tool for assessing the safety or aircraft, in particular their resilience to lightning strikes.
As PTLM was already parallelised by BAe using the regular domain decomposition model, […]
RANSMB (1996)
The RANSMB (Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes Multi-block) software is developed and used by the AVRO division of BAe Regional Aircraft for the design of aircraft. It models the flow of air around an aircraft, and is used to test the performance of various aircraft component. In 1995, EPCC worked with HPC experts from AVRO to […]