Project Title:

Electronic Knowledge Exchange System for CFD Validation Concepts

94-1	02.01	9457	A	

Electronic Knowledge Exchange System for CFD Validation Concepts

Abstract:

The transition of state-of-the-art Computational Fluid Dynamics 
(CFD) methods from the code research and development community to 
the vehicle design community is an important goal for the aerospace 
industry. However, the success of this technology transfer effort 
is dependent upon the active participation of both communities, 
particularly in the area of CFD code validation. The objective of 
this work is to combine knowledge systems and electronic 
communication tools into a hypermedia system for exchanging 
information among multiple users. This system will document CFD 
code validation efforts in a knowledge base and will allow the user 
community to provide comments and feedback to the code development 
community. The proposed technique takes advantage of the ability of 
electronic networks to facilitate communications among a 
distributed group of participants and of the applicability of 
knowledge systems to technology transfer tasks. The merging of 
these two technologies will benefit NASA and the aerospace industry 
by increasing the participation factor in code validation user 
communities. 

The knowledge exchange system can be used to document test cases 
and results, provide feedback, and implement multiple communication 
channels for any application that involves testing of complex 
hardware or software systems by a distributed group of users. One 
such application is the technology transfer of CFD to the 
aerospace, ship building, or turbomachinery industries. This system 
also has commercial potential in the validation and testing of any 
software product, and therefore can be marketed to the U.S. 
software industry. 

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