NASA Researchers Receive HPC Innovation Excellence Award
A team of NASA researchers was honored today with an HPC Innovation Excellence Award for their work to produce high-fidelity simulations that are being used to help reduce aircraft noise. The award was accepted during SC14 by Mehdi Khorrami, project lead in the Computational AeroSciences Branch at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
The noise generated by civil air transport adversely impacts population centers near major airports. With the expected growth in air travel, community exposure to aircraft noise will increase considerably. To alleviate this problem, the Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project within NASA’s Aeronautics Mission Research Directorate is working to simultaneously reduce aircraft noise, fuel consumption, and engine emissions.
The high-fidelity simulations, run on the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center, are being used to provide an accurate representation of the aerodynamic mechanisms that produce airframe noise (a prominent component of noise during aircraft landing) and to evaluate a suite of novel noise reduction concepts for aircraft flaps and landing gear. The knowledge gained from these computations helps to develop and improve several concepts that would reduce the noise generated by these components.
Other team members named in the award are: Ehab Fares, Exa Corporation; Patrick J. Moran, NASA/Ames; and Raymond E. Mineck, Analytical Mechanical Associates, NASA/Langley.
The HPC Innovation Excellence Award program, sponsored by International Data Corporation (IDC), recognizes users and their vendors for major high performance computing-supported achievements in industry, government and academia.
