Teresa Whiting
NASA Armstrong Public Affairs Specialist
A number of air taxi firms are utilizing a NASA-developed pc software program software to foretell plane noise and aerodynamic efficiency. This software permits producers working in fields associated to NASA’s Superior Air Mobility mission to see early within the plane growth course of how design parts like propellors or wings would carry out. This protects the business money and time when making potential design modifications.
This NASA pc code, known as “OVERFLOW,” performs calculations to foretell fluid flows reminiscent of air, and the pressures, forces, moments, and energy necessities that come from the plane. Since these fluid flows contribute to plane noise, improved predictions can assist engineers design quieter fashions. Producers can combine the code with their very own plane modeling packages to run completely different eventualities, quantifying efficiency and effectivity, and visually decoding how the airflow behaves on and across the automobile. These interpretations can come ahead in quite a lot of colours representing these behaviors.
This pc program is accessible to business for U.S. launch by way of the software program.nasa.gov web site.
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Joby Aviation.
Joby Aviation
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Wisk.
Wisk
An OVERFLOW modeling picture from the producer Archer Aviation.
Archer Aviation
