Virtual Engineering

  • 40 R&D Engineers: 20, FTE, 20 Research Assistants
  • 41 PC High End Workstations
  • 3 Collaboration Rooms
  • Dedicated HPC Cluster for the Laboratory [1000 cores]
  • Secured Areas for ITAR Restricted Projects
  • Physics-Based Design Services:
    • UAS
    • Aerospace Crashworthiness
    • Passenger Safety

Flight Simulation

  • Provides user-centered, first-person perspective
    • Enables users to interact with an engineered system naturally
    • Provides users with a wide range of accessible tools
  • Requires an engineering mathematical model that includes the geometry, physics, and any quantitative or qualitative data from the real system
  • Allows user to walk through the operating system
    • Ability to observe how it works and how it responds to changes in design, operation, other engineering modification
    • Allows interaction within the virtual environment
    • Provides an easily understood interface appropriate to the user's technical background and expertise
    • Enables user to explore and discover unexpected but critical details about the system's behavior
  • Can be tailored to the desired accuracy of the solution
  • Allows use of simplified mathematical methods that can performed real-time vs. more detailed models were the system can be coupled with advanced CFD, Multibody, FE, etc. codes
  • Virtual Flight Testing Collaboration Facilities:
    • Pilot Console
    • Control Station
    • Collaboration Room