CAESAR demonstrates aerospace applications

Almere, 9-10 -1996 At October 31, the Esprit project CAESAR organises a dissemination day at Silicon Graphics' Reality Centre in Reading, UK. Focus will be on application of HPCN within the aerospace industry. The results demonstrated are expected be relevant to the other industrial sectors too.

The foundation of the CAESAR project can be found within the Aerospace, Chemical Engineering and Ship Building sectors. Requirements and demonstrators are, however, relevant to many industries, where simulation can have a major impact on the design and production cycles.

Welcome and introduction,J. Murphy, British Aerospace;

HPCN and ESPRIT, R. Campo, CEC DGIII;

Background to CAESAR,J. Murphy, British Aerospace;

PSUE, N. Weatherill, Swansea University;

Multi-disciplinary Design with the PSUE, D. Rowse, British Aerospace;

HPCN techniques for investigating multiple design options, H. Heiger, Daimler Benz;

Open discussion, J. Murphy, British Aerospace;

Access to CAESAR Results, J. Murphy, British Aerospace;

Summary and conclusions, J. Murphy, British Aerospace.

CAESAR is based on exploiting HPCN in a number of ways to bring greater efficiency into the design and production cycles. Increased product complexity leads to the requirements for: Larger simulations of more complex problems; Simultaneous analyses of multiple design and planning options, and multi disciplinary analyses, multi physics simulation.

A software infrastructure is created to allow the end-users to efficiently define and analyse their simulations. CAESAR addresses this via the development of the Parallel Simulation User Environment (PSUE) with an integrated tool set and a route map through problem set-up for selected applications in Aerospace, Chemical Engineering and Ship Development.

The initial version of PSUE will include CAD repair tools and efficient unstructured grid generators. It will enable the set-up of complex and multiple problems on a variety of workstations and will trigger the execution of simulations on local or remote parallel platforms.

For further information contact: Dr. J. A. Murphy, Sowerby Research Centre, British Aerospace, E-mail: John.Murphy@src.bae.co.uk or check in at the CEASAR Web Site