NASA’s focus on future aircraft configurations that could significantly reduce fuel burn, emissions, and noise has resultedin the need for more capable analysis tools. Many of these proposed new configurations have additional complex physicsthat must be accurately modeled to obtain reliable predictions of capability. In most cases, these designs are inherentlymultidisciplinary in nature, for example, involving tightly coupled propulsion and aerodynamics or tight coupling betweenaerodynamics and a flexible structure. NASA’s Transformational Tools and Technologies (T3) Project has been taskedwith developing the improved computational tools required to accurately predict such new configurations, as well aspredict the behavior of more conventional configurations at off-design conditions. The project commissioned a communityassessment study that resulted in a CFD Vision for 2030, complete with a roadmap defining needed areas of research toachieve this desired future computational capability. This oral-only presentation describes the progress made by the T3Project to date, including planned future research that will contribute towards the Vision 2030 goals.
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