Breakthroughs
Avetec is an innovation hub that allows research companies, government agencies and academia to collaborate to get ideas to the market faster. These collaborative research efforts are making a difference in the aerospace industry and Accelerating American Innovation.
Innovative Breakthrough Areas
GE90 Full System Demonstration
In 2006, Avetec and NASA Glenn unveiled the first full system 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics* simulation of the GE90 engine at a single operating point. Collaborative research through Avetec continues on simulating how the unsteady flow in the components affect the operation of the propulsion system.
* one of the branches of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows
Transient Thermal Management
The Joint Strike Fighter Thermal Management Systems model was modified to function as a representative system to help understand how it interacts with other aircraft subsystem models. Now, researchers can optimize power management to support the needs of future military aircraft with a detailed, dynamic, system-level simulation. This collaboration between the Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics was is part of Avetec’s innovation-accelerating virtual lab.
Global Data Sharing
YottaYotta used Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) to test and validate a new architecture that provides high performance global data sharing and data locality when implementing geographically distributed data processing. This architecture will enable four DICE nodes located at Avetec in Springfield, Ohio; PNNL in Richland, Washington; NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland; and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to optimize distributed information technology resources for reducing time to solution.
