ENVISION

Europe’s climate targets in aviation can only be achieved through substantial aerodynamic improvements of the overall system, comprising both the aircraft airframe and the propulsion system. At the edges of the flight envelope, these components interact closely. To reliably predict these effects already in the early design phases, novel simulation methods are required. These methods must capture the aerodynamics of the aircraft and the propulsion system in an integrated way, while being based on highly accurate turbulence-resolving approaches. Such methods, however, involve very high computational effort and require the use of modern high-performance computers with GPU-based accelerators (Graphics Processing Units), which are particularly efficient for parallel numerical simulations.