Teaching CFD to USAFA Cadets using AF-IntelliTwin™

Intelligent Light in collaboration with the USAFA has developed AF-IntelliTwin™. This software is a customized version of the commercial off the shelf product IntelliTwin™ and provides a way to standardize CFD workflows to instruct USAFA cadets on the use of contemporary CFD tools such as the DoD CREATE™-AV/Kestrel solver. It uses a modern zero-foot print web browser application that is enabled for use on high performance computing systems. USAFA cadets who have grown up using apps on smart phones, tablets and computers are not used to command line interfaces, and their experience limits their ability to use CFD tools on HPC systems. AF-IntelliTwin™ removes these barriers by providing a standardized instructional workflow and Graphical User interface/workflow manager for simulations in the classroom environment using the Pointwise, Kestrel and FieldView tools. This presentation will demonstrate how AF-IntelliTwin™ works and allows cadets to easily use modern CFD tools to understand aerodynamic concepts.

PRESENTER

Duque, Earl
epd@ilight.com
928-600-2450

Intelligent Light

CO-AUTHOR

Seidel, Jurgen
Jurgen.Seidel@afacademy.af.edu

CATEGORY

Computational Fluid Dynamics

SYSTEMS USED

Narwhal

SECRET

No