Wichita State University
Virtual Engineering & Flight Simulation
Virtual Engineering
- 40 R&D Engineers: 20, FTE, 20 Research Assistants
- 41 PC High End Workstations
- 3 Collaboration Rooms
- Dedicated HPC Cluster for the Laboratory [1000 cores]
- Secured Areas for ITAR Restricted Projects
- Physics-Based Design Services:
- UAS
- Aerospace Crashworthiness
- Passenger Safety
Flight Simulation
- Provides user-centered, first-person perspective
- Enables users to interact with an engineered system naturally
- Provides users with a wide range of accessible tools
- Requires an engineering mathematical model that includes the geometry, physics, and any quantitative or qualitative data from the real system
- Allows user to walk through the operating system
- Ability to observe how it works and how it responds to changes in design, operation, other engineering modification
- Allows interaction within the virtual environment
- Provides an easily understood interface appropriate to the user's technical background and expertise
- Enables user to explore and discover unexpected but critical details about the system's behavior
- Can be tailored to the desired accuracy of the solution
- Allows use of simplified mathematical methods that can performed real-time vs. more detailed models were the system can be coupled with advanced CFD, Multibody, FE, etc. codes
- Virtual Flight Testing Collaboration Facilities:
- Pilot Console
- Control Station
- Collaboration Room