Realizing the Vision of CFD in 2030
Andrew Cary, John R. Chawner, Earl P. Duque, William Gropp, Bil Kleb, Ray Kolonay, Eric J. Nielsen, Brian Smith
Abstract
In 2014, NASA released a report outlining a future state for aerospace computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the CFD Vision 2030 Study (the Study).1 Developed by experts from industry, government, and academia, the Study provided a forecast of CFD capabilities required for turbulent, transitional, and reacting flow simulations across a broad Mach number regime. In addition, the Study provided an aspirational role for future CFD as part of a routine, efficient, and physics-based aerospace design and development process. This future role of CFD was summarized in the Study as follows: “A single engineer/scientist must be able to conceive, create, analyze, and interpret a large ensemble of related simulations in a time-critical period (e.g., 24 hours), without individually managing each simulation, to a prespecified level of accuracy.”