Beyond the Tunnel: Designing the A250 in the Age of Instant Aerodynamics
Wind tunnels have long been a cornerstone of aerospace engineering, providing direct measurements of forces and moments on physical models, with real-world fluid dynamics faithfully reproduced by nature itself. However, full-scale, production-ready models are often impractical to test—both due to cost and because, by that stage, it’s too late to meaningfully impact the design. While a well-executed wind tunnel campaign yields invaluable data, modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) offers powerful and complementary advantages. With a tool like Flexcompute’s Flow360, we...