The accomplishment of all Phase I objectives will demonstrate the significant benefits of the combined multi-fidelity / multi-disciplinary design environment. This capability would be immediately useful for the design and development of civilian and military gas turbine engines. Such an analytical capability will also assist the wider turbomachinery community with avoidance of advanced designs, leading to a successful commercialization of the new tool.
By providing an integrated framework for turbomachinery analysis, the work in this project will reduce the time and complexity of the multiphysics analyses (job setup, solution control, pre- and post-processing). This work directly addresses NASA design environment goals as engineering teams will have the capability to employ multi-fidelity physics-based tools to reduce the failure rate and development cost of propulsion systems. In this proposed work, the extension of CoMAT to work with NPSS will enhance the capabilities of both tools, and will facilitate a broader range of multi-fidelity, multi-disciplinary analyses and simulations of complete vehicle systems. The numeric zoom functions in NPSS will be enhanced with the fluid-structure interaction capability of CoMAT. Similarly, the high-fidelity analysis in CoMAT will be leveraged by the high level functions in NPSS. Since both tools are built to work with proprietary and 3rd party solvers, MSI is confident of the commercialization potential of this work.
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