Avetec

Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell

Applied Research

Reducing Cost and Time to Engineer Real-Life Solutions

The American aerospace industry faces many challenges. It can take decades and billions of dollars to develop new products and platforms.

Right now, Avetec and its partners are taking an open innovation approach to collaboration that will reduce the cost and time it takes to design, develop and test new systems. This collaboration has the potential for saving millions of dollars and years of development time.

Research Focus Areas

Modeling Simulation - Virtual simulation of an entire jet engine allows repetition in the process at a lower cost an in less time. Collaborating through Avetec’s virtual innovation hub will help industry, academia and government to quickly uncover problems before investing millions of dollars to build physical models.
Applied Technical Computing - Scientists, engineers and researchers are producing massive amounts of data in their quest to solve complex and interdisciplinary problems, but their efforts are hindered by poor data management. Data management issues include the number and size of data files and the time and difficulty of transferring large files between computers for storage and post processing often resulting in limited access, limited utility, and slow transfer of data.
Complex Systems Integration - Avetec is building software tools to integrate complex systems and to help solve computing problems associated with them. Multidisciplinary problems in jet turbine engines interconnect much like the systems of the human body. Avetec seeks to expand the analytical models to a 3D capability to study the interaction between the different components.


Avetec Research Partners

  • Altair Engineering
  • Baker Engineering, Inc.
  • GE - Aviation
  • GE - Global Research Center
  • Georgia Tech
  • ISR - SprayCool
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mercury Systems
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Modelogics, Inc.
  • NASA Glenn Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Research Center
  • PC Krause & Associates
  • Platform Computing
  • Scientific Monitoring, Inc.
  • StorageTek
  • Sun Microsystems
  • The Ohio State University
  • University of Cincinnati
  • University of Dayton Research Institute
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Toledo
  • Yotta Yotta

 

Avetec Breakthroughs

Avetec is an innovation hub that allows research companies, government agencies and academia to collaborate to get ideas to the market faster.

Click the images below for more information on these breakthroughs.

GE90 Full System Demonstration
Transient Thermal Management
Global Data Sharing