Aerospace vehicle aerodynamics investigates the fluid dynamic and aerothermodynamic behavior of aircraft, rotorcraft, missiles, and high-speed vehicles across subsonic to hypersonic regimes. The field integrates wind tunnel and flight testing, high-fidelity simulation, and advanced diagnostics to understand lift, drag, noise generation, heat transfer, and combustion phenomena. Applications span laminar flow control, aeroelastic load management, turbine and duct optimization, quiet supersonic transport, and propulsion–airframe integration, supporting the design and validation of efficient, safe, and low-noise aerospace systems.
Automotive
The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing—which is why NASA is working to ...
Aug 7, 2025
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Automotive
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Hardware
JUPITER became the world's fourth fastest supercomputer when it debuted last month. Though housed in Germany at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC), Georgia Tech played a supporting role in helping the system land on ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Engineering
Many of us grew up using paint-by-number sets to create beautiful color pictures.
Jul 3, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
NASA's Advanced Air Mobility vision involves the skies above the U.S. filled with new types of aircraft, including air taxis. But making that vision a reality involves ensuring that people will actually want to ride these ...
Jun 23, 2025
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Automotive
From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over ...
Jun 20, 2025
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Engineering
Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago, pterosaurs survived until 66 million ...
Jun 16, 2025
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Automotive
NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert—all without ever leaving the ...
May 16, 2025
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Engineering
Scientists at the University of Bristol in collaboration with the University of Salford have uncovered the root cause behind the particularly irritating noise produced by boundary layer ingesting (BLI) engines—a key technology ...
May 15, 2025
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Robotics
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have already proved to be valuable tools for a wide range of applications, ranging from film and entertainment production to defense and security, agriculture, logistics, ...
