{"id":3337,"date":"2020-05-22T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:15:59","slug":"wichita-state-designs-tailless-drone-using-simcenter-floefd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wichita-state-designs-tailless-drone-using-simcenter-floefd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wichita State designs tailless drone using Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita University used Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122 software to design a unique class of drone, small unmanned aerial systems or sUAS for short. This type of drone has become increasingly popular for commercial usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAIR went with Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122 for their creation of a tailless drone as they felt it offered much more than other CFD codes. Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122 has CAD embedded functionality, which allows for automatic detection of fluid regions and eliminates the need to clean up the geometry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cSimcenter FLOEFD was a valuable tool when designing the demonstrator sUAS for NIAR\u201d<\/p><cite>Harsh Shah &#8211; Research Engineer, NAIR, Wichita State University<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/05\/niar-wsu-78851-featured5-640x360_tcm27-71564.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/05\/niar-wsu-78851-featured5-640x360_tcm27-71564.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/05\/niar-wsu-78851-featured5-640x360_tcm27-71564-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Cartesian Mesh used in the numerical model for the sUAS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CFD Simulations were preformed using the created sUAS and the thermal management of the engine was the second focus of the CFD analysis. \u201cThe ability to do this in Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122 provides a powerful tool to the design engineer where this would normally have to be left to the CFD analyst,\u201d says Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about Wichita University&#8217;s sUAS study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/our-story\/customers\/niar-wichita-state-university-simcenter\/71553\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita University used Simcenter\u2122 FLOEFD\u2122 software to design a unique class of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69398,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[154,134,156],"industry":[43,47,45,44,46],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3d-printing","tag-cfd","tag-computer-aided-design-cad","industry-aerospace-defense","industry-aerospace-defense-agencies","industry-aircraft-airframes","industry-aircraft-engines","industry-avionics-defense-electronics"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/05\/niar-wsu-78851-featured5-640x360_tcm27-71564.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}