Applied Research Group

A single frame from a large, unsteady Navier-Stokes simulation shows rotor tip vortices and pressure on the fuselage. This advanced simulation of CH-47 in hover performed by the Applied Research Group for the US Army and The Boeing Company. The image shows one time step in a fully coupled simulation consisting of over 2.3TB of data. A customized animation and movie were delivered as a part of this project. (Data and image courtesy of US Army Aeroflighdynamics Directorate (AMRDEC) and The Boeing Company).

The Applied Research Group is a team of CFD and computer science experts who possess the experience and deep expertise required to collaborate with leaders in CFD around the world. With expert team members in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions, Intelligent Light can support customer needs for short term implementation projects as well as long term research ventures. The Applied Research Group is working at the leading edge of CFD to develop methods and techniques that will benefit the entire CFD community.

Our objective is to help your organization apply world-class CFD methods, techniques, and workflows to meet your most ambitious challenges. Our services and expertise may be retained to work with you and your chosen tools to:

• Add capacity and expertise to your engineering team
• Speed the development of knowledge and methods
• Execute and manage custom engineering projects
• Build leveragable technology and automation into your workflow
• Develop sophisticated, high-impact simulation output for review and presentation

CFD Domain expertise:

• Aerodynamics
• Wind Energy
• Detached and Large Eddy Simulations of Rotor Aerodynamics
• Micro-Scale Simulations
• Workflow automation

Expertise in the use of commercial and government CFD solvers and tools:

• NASA CFD codes, Chimera Grid Tools
• Overset grids methods and applications
• Grid Generation
• High Performance Computing
• Customized Video and electronic media