Aerospace

CFD plane “In today’s context of strong competitiveness, worldwide aircraft, engine and equipment manufacturers are facing greater challenges than ever before. The market demands that more complex products be developed with shorter lead times and more cost effectiveness while using evolving business models involving multiple partners”.

In this context, modelling and simulation techniques are more and more used in a multidisciplinary framework. All these different domains are brought together as part of a knowledge-based design environment without any cost overhead. More robust preliminary design and advanced design thus is needed for :

Having instant, clear, and accurate visibility of the status and performance of the product
Fast, accurate exploration of many more product and process design options, to increase value to the customer and reduce lead time and cost
Rapid evaluation of alternatives, trends, and risks, based on accurate data, to confidently predict the results of contemplated actions
Quickly evaluate issues and options to determine the best compromises
Instantly propagate changes to all relevant parts of the enterprise and automatic update of the related enterprise model
Rapid optimization of new product designs, processes and equipment, and business operations, to maximize efficiency and profitability while reducing all forms of waste

This means

reduction of development lifecycle duration and cost
reduction in rework
reduction in the cost of physical tests

The integration of full CFD in the Multidisciplinary and MDO processes is made easy by reducing the time scale of CFD to the level of other physics.This utopia has become reality, and Fluorem is able today to offer, with his parameterization software Turb’Opty, the bridge to reach “terra incognita” new designs.

In-flight icing analysis

In the era of CFD, it is today possible to piggyback on existing CFD analyses and design anti-icing systems in a verifiable, reliable manner, totally integrated with Aerodynamics. A modest investment at design time can lead to more effective systems that will pass certification faster, sustain less in-service problems and minimize post-certification adjustments or flight limitations. FENSAP-ICE is an integrated 3D high-end CFD “system” for the simulation in-flight icing analysis of aircraft, rotorcraft, UAVs, jet engines, instruments and appendages.

In addition, it is SLD- ready Being 3-D, fully-viscous, compressible and turbulent, FENSAP-ICE matches industry’s current aerodynamic tools, allowing aerodynamics and in-flight icing to be dealt with in a concurrent engineering fashion, rather than in succession. FENSAP-ICE’s versatility and realism allows ice protection designers to venture beyond the limits of the certification regulations, intended to be minimum guidelines. Aircraft manufacturers that “care” about safety are already using FENSAP-SLD.

FENSAP-ICE has become the "virtual icing tunnel" of forward-looking aircraft, engine, flight simulation companies and accident investigators. FENSAP-ICE is SLD-ready.

In addition, NTI, through its know-how and network of associated DERs, can facilitate or completely execute the icing certification process for customers: NTI-DER experts can negotiate the certification basis, prepare a PSCP, the compliance checklist, and coordinate with the airworthiness authorities, they can prepare, through a traceable and documented process, all necessary engineering documentation and validations to be submitted to airworthiness authorities for the icing certification process, they can become part of an Integrated Product Team (IPT), or manage the project on behalf of the client, and interact with specialists from all disciplines to establish effective communication channels and ensure the most timely and accurate submissions for a Type Certificate, Amended Type Certificate or Supplemental Type Certificate, and, finally, they can assist in evaluating in-service icing related events for continued airworthiness issues and product modifications.