NASA Shows Improvements of Air Simulation around Plane

NASA shared its progress in plane research meant to help it better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Various organizations helped create and test the High Lift Common Research Model and will install the wind tunnels to provide further information about the results.

The video shows a computer simulation of air flowing over a 5.2% scale of NASA's High Lift Common Research Model wing design. The color key at lower right indicates the speed of the air.

This research should let NASA learn more about "differences that occur when we build and test several identical airplane models in multiple wind tunnels," said Melissa Rivers, subproject manager in NASA’s Transformational Tools and Technologies project.

The team will assess common wind tunnel conditions in more than 14 tests across the globe. The data from the tests will be used to understand if the research tools using computational fluid dynamics are accurately predicting the physics of an aircraft.

While its partners are creating ways to communicate their data, NASA is developing a cloud-based solution to give them access to the data and foster collaboration.

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