Aeromechanics & Space Vehicle Design

CFDRC performs aeromechanics research and development, and delivers expert engineering design and analyses services across a wide variety of the Aerospace Vehicle Platforms and Defense Systems, including:

Rotator

Fixed Wing, High Performance Aircraft

Rotocraft & Aviation Technologies

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Tactical Missiles & Precision Munitions

Launch Vehicles & Strategic Missiles

Spacecraft & Hypersonic Vehicles

Our Core Competencies and expertise includes the following technical and analytical domains:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD)
  • Finite Element Methods (FEM)
  • Fluid-Structure-Integration (FSI)
  • Aero-thermodynamics
  • 6-DOF and Flight Dynamics
  • Aero-Servo-Thermo-Elasticity
  • Vibration and Acoustics
  • Multi-Moving Body Separation Dynamics
  • Multi-Flight Regime Flow Physics