The Spacecraft and Missiles Industry is one of the most difficult in which to compete. The industry’s successes and failures still make headlines today, and their accomplishments have earned rocket scientists worldwide acclaim. As demand for commercial use has grown and the industry has matured, competition has also increased. Launch vehicles, engines and satellites are produced worldwide. Launch services are offered globally. Innovative concepts featuring different tradeoffs continue to be developed. Vehicles can be manned or unmanned, expendable or re-usable, launched vertically or horizontally, from the ground or in the air. Operational conditions and engineering challenges are extreme. A multitude of parts must be designed, engineered and integrated to reliably survive the rigors of space:
Gas turbine engines are also used to power air-borne missiles. To engineer and develop reliable systems for these extreme environments, the industry has used computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software for decades. With each advance in high-performance computing, virtual prototypes become more and more detailed and increasingly accurate. Today, expensive physical testing is focused more on validating final designs rather than on improving designs. Comprehensive multiphysics from ANSYS enables virtual prototypes to account for Fluid-structure interactions of lightweight structures such as folded solar panels of satellites in environmentally controlled payload compartments; thermal stresses in combustors, heat shields, turbine blades, and other components subjected to extreme temperature gradients; and other multi-disciplinary phenomena. These challenging problems become tractable using integrated, advanced technologies from ANSYS such as finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and more. ANSYS products renowned in the industry include ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Multiphysics, ANSYS ICEM CFD, ANSYS ICEM CFD Cart3D, ANSYS CFX, FLUENT, ANSYS TAS, and other application-specific products such as ANSYS BladeModeler, ANSYS TurboGrid, ANSYS AUTODYN, ANSYS LS-DYNA and ANSYS Icepak. Read Case Studies to see how ANSYS Solves Real World Problems
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One of thousands of inviscid solutions for the Liquid Glide-Back Booster run in a single day using ANSYS ICEM CFD Cart3D |
