Developing Next-Gen Launch Vehicles
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle this year, a new Space Launch System capable of carrying large payloads into orbit will be key to continuing NASA's science and exploration missions.
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The "Right Stuff" at the Right Time
A confluence of skills, resources, and timing has put NAS modeling and simulation experts at the forefront of safety analysis for shuttle missions over the last seven years.
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Getting to the Heart of the Storm
Researchers running a high-resolution global climate model on NASA's Pleiades and Discover supercomputers have made remarkable progress with some of hurricane prediction's thorniest problems.
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Turning Down the Noise
NASA scientists and engineers are working toward a day when living near an airport will no longer mean being disturbed by the whine of jets overhead.
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Latest News & Highlights
Kepler Mission Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
12.20.2011 – With help from the Pleiades supercomputer and NAS experts, scientists have validated the discovery of two new planets, Kepler–20e and Kepler–20f. The discovery is detailed in a paper in Nature, with NAS's Chris Henze as a coauthor. Read More
"Apollo Zone" Digital Image Mosaic and Digital Elevation Model Released
12.13.2011 – NASA Ames' Intelligent Robotics Group has released high-resolution maps covering 18% of the lunar surface—the 3D map processing was performed using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. Read More
NASA Exhibit Activities at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
11.30.2011 – The NASA booth (#1637) will showcase a wide variety of science presentations and cutting-edge, interactive science, technology, and data demonstrations. This year's program will be held Tuesday, December 6 through Friday, December 9. Download program (PDF-966 KB)
NASA Science, Technology Featured at Supercomputing Conference
11.08.2011 – NASA will highlight the vital role of supercomputing in the search for Earth-size planets, understanding the causes of space weather, improving aircraft performance, designing next-generation spacecraft, and much more at the 24th annual Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) conference. NASA@SC11 Website
Upcoming Events
Applied Modeling & Simulation Seminar Series
Reflections on RANS Modeling
February 10, 2012, 1:00 PM PDT
Building N258, Auditorium (Rm 127)
Speaker: Dr. Philippe R. Spalart, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) modeling is still in high demand, certainly in the boundary layers when combined with LES in the new wave of hybrid methods. The reasons for little visible progress since the early 1990s are discussed. Also covered: Resilience of the logarithmic law in pressure gradients; status of steady/unsteady RANS for bluff-body flows; transition in RANS solutions.
For more information, contact Cetin Kiris, cetin.c.kiris@nasa.gov
ICCFD 2012 Conference
July 9-13, 2012
Big Island of Hawaii
Abstract submissions are open for the Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD7) to be held on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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