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2004 NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
07.27.04 - Scientist Receives NASA Honor
Guru P. Guruswamy (NASA) was part of the Abrupt Wing Stall (AWS) Group that received a Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) 2004 award presented during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. on July 14. The AWS team was comprised of members from Langley and Ames Research Centers, the Naval Warfare Center, the Air Force Academy, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. The citation on the award states: "2004 Partnership award for Exceptional Progress toward the Partnerships for National Security Objective presented on July 14, 2004 to the Abrupt Wing Stall (AWS) Team." Associate Administrator of the Aerospace Enterprise, Dr. Vic Lebacqz presented the award on behalf of Administrator Mr. Sean O'Keefe.
As part of the AWS team, Guruswamy led the numerical simulation effort of AWS phenomenon for an F18E/F aircraft in collaboration with Dr. David Rodriguez (former NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division support service contractor) and Prof. Max Platzer of Naval Post Graduate School. The flow phenomenon of wing stall was accurately and successfully simulated on a supercomputer at the NAS facility by using HiMAP software (winner of the NASA 2002 Software Release Award).
HiMAP, soon to be ported to the Columbia project for large-scale multidisciplinary simulations of NASA and DoD projects, was selected for the AWS project because of its unique unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelastic capabilities for complex geometries. Solutions modeled the full F18E/F configuration of 108 blocks with a total grid size of 15 million points. Using the unique load-balancing scheme available in HiMAP, several cases were run on 64 processors with a high-efficiency factor.
TGIR awards are presented by NASA Headquarters to recognize the most significant accomplishments towards achieving the Agency's goals and objectives.
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