Aerospace & defence
Simulation for aerospace and defence engineering
Airframe and store aerodynamics from low subsonic to supersonic, the noise that flow makes, and the structural response of what carries it. The compressible and structural work runs on the same case tree as everything else, so a drag sweep and the modal check on the bracket holding the sensor are the same project.
Questions this answers
- What is the drag and lift of this configuration through an angle-of-attack sweep?
- Where does the shock sit, and what does it do to the surface loads?
- How much noise does this flow make, and where does it come from?
- Does this bracket buckle, and what are its natural frequencies?
- What does a hot component do to the structure bolted to it?
The analysis types that do it
Each of these is a case type in the application, not a configuration you assemble. Every one runs in the free build — the free tier limits mesh size and cores, never which physics you may use.
And in the other modules
Structural, thermal and electromagnetics ship alongside fluids. Only the types that run today are listed.
Backends underneath
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Open-source solvers, selected and configured from the case type. You can still read every dictionary the application writes.
When it will not fit on your machine
Paid accounts can send meshing and solving to SHD Cloud and keep working locally. The estimate is shown before the run starts.
What this does not do
- No certification credit. SHD Sim is not a qualified tool under any airworthiness process, and nothing here should be read as one.
- Aeroelasticity is not coupled. Aerodynamic and structural cases run separately; loads are transferred by hand.
- Explicit dynamics is available as a separate module. SHD Sim is not a qualified tool under any certification or airworthiness process.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.