CFD at Boeing Commercial Airplanes:

Today’s Uses and Tomorrow’s Needs

The use of supercomputing to design commercial airplanes has dramatically increased in the past decade.  Developments in both hardware and numerical methods have allowed for simulation to be brought into more design areas.  The benefits that have been realized by the 787 program will be presented.  However, even with these dramatic increases in capability a wide variety of opportunities exist for even greater penetration of numerical simulation into the airplane design process.  These opportunities, along with the needed technology advances, will be discussed.