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Aerospace Applications of Gridgen
Gridgen was applied to virtually every major military aircraft and spacecraft in the last 30 years including the F-16, F-15, F-18, F-22, F-35, F-117, B-2, E-2C, P-3C, Space Shuttle, Space Station and more. From its inception in 1984 to its retirement in 2016, Gridgen served the aerospace market well.
Automating High-Lift Systems
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a long time client of VINAS Co., Ltd. (VINAS), Gridgen's distributor in… (more)
AH-64D Apache Helicopter
Dr. Earl Duque of the Rotorcraft CFD Group of the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center created, using… (more)
Meshing for DPLR
The Data Parallel Line Relaxation (DPLR) CFD code was named co-winner of NASA's Software of the Year award for 2007… (more)
E-2C Hawkeye
The accuracy and flexibility of Gridgen grid generation and preprocessing CFD software combined with the robust, efficient capabilities of… (more)
F-16 Fighting Falcon
This grid was generated to study the incremental drag due to integration of the General Electric F110 engine in the F-16 Fighting Falcon... (more)
F-15 with Unstructured Overset
Cobalt Solutions, LLC has used Gridgen for many years to create unstructured grids around complex aircraft and several ground vehicles... (more)
F-15E Spin Analysis
Using hybrid grids, engineers at Cobalt Solutions and Arizona State Univ. are exploring techniques that can predict the spin behavior of… (more)
F-35 Drag Reduction
At Lockheed Martin, Gridgen plays a significant role in the grids generated for aerodynamic design and drag evaluations of all three JSF variants. The flexibility of… (more)
Multi-Element Airfoil
Gridgen's hyperbolic solver was used to create this single-zone structured quad-cell grid for a multi-element airfoil. After importing the geometry definition… (more)
Overset Grid Assembly
The addition of overset grid assembly (OGA) capability represents a substantial leap in functionality. The overset feature suite provides the ability to… (more)
P-3C Orion
Flying at a low observable altitude, the P-3C aircraft views the battlespace below and instantly transmits that information to U.S. Naval forces. The P-3C Orion is… (more)
Pressure Regulating Valve
Researchers at CRAFT Tech have been using Gridgen in in studies of flowfields that involve both complex geometries and physics. For such… (more)
SOFIA in a 747
Computer simulation is being used to help certify and ensure safety for a specially modified Boeing 747 that will carry the world's largest airborne telescope in… (more)
STOVL Jet Recirculation
Northrop Grumman used Gridgen to generate grids for a study of hot gas ingestion for Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) vehicles… (more)
Vectored Thrust
Gridgen helped save $750,000 in the development of an advanced fluidic thrust vectoring exhaust system for a future generation of fighter aircraft… (more)
Wright Flyer
Orville and Wilbur Wright would be amazed! Their Wright Flyer is taking off again. And Gridgen is there to help. By interweaving cutting-edge technology of today… (more)
X-15 and Parabolized Navier-Stokes
The ability of computational analyses to inform the aerodynamic design process at an early stage in the design cycle requires rapid, robust and credible… (more)
From X-Planes to JSF
The images selected for use on the stamps are far more than pretty colorful pictures. These images actually depict the true physics of the air flow around the X-15… (more)