SimScale has highlighted how four drone and UAV engineering teams used its cloud-based CFD and FEA simulation platform during aircraft development rather than only for final-stage validation.
- VTOL Technologies (UK) evaluated fuselage-wing blending concepts for a BVLOS drone before physical prototyping.
- TECNALIA (Spain) used simulation across multiple design stages to assess impeller configurations for an electric air taxi concept.
- Turbulence Solutions (Austria) modeled its turbulence-mitigation flaplet technology and compared results with flight-test data.
- Outbound Aerospace (US) combined CFD and FEA to analyze aerodynamics, landing-gear loads, and flight stability characteristics of a blended wing body demonstrator.
Collectively, these cases show how simulation is moving from a back-end validation tool to an earlier part of the engineering workflow across drone and advanced air mobility development.
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