One of NASA’s six Strategic Thrusts for aeronautics is “Innovation in Commercial Supersonic Aircraft,” with a vision of fast air travel widely available to the traveling public. Future supersonic aircraft will be efficient, affordable, and environmentally responsible, generating an acceptable level of en-route noise (sonic booms). The first major step is the ongoing construction of the new X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane to demonstrate technologies that reduce sonic booms to gentle thumps. By using highresolution Cart3D computational fluid dynamics simulations, the shape of the aircraft can be designed to control the non-linear interactions of shock waves to reduce the sonic boom noise on the ground to within outdoor ambient levels, thereby enabling supersonic overland flight.


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    Title :

    Minimizing Sonic Boom Through Simulation-Based Design: The X-59 Airplane


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) ; 2019 ; Denver, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-11-17


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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