From a news perspective, this study is timely because of the awareness around fuel efficiency. Understanding flow separation is important to designing fuel-efficient cars, planes and combustors – controlling flow separation helps manage both fuel consumption and pollution emission. With the help of Tecplot 360, “a CFD visualization tool that helps analyze, explore and understand complex simulation data,” scientists were able to explain the mathematics behind the unsteady separation of fluids in both two and three dimensions. As described by Mike Peery, CEO and founder of Tecplot, the company’s solutions are like “Microsoft Excel on steroids.” Users can view data as wire-mesh plots, contour lines and flooding, vector fields, light-source shaded plots, and a variety of XY plots. Tecplot’s visualization solution allows scientists and engineers to quickly analyze data with easy-to-use quantitative and qualitative charts. This aerodynamic separation creates drag, which causes further slowing and forces the engine to work harder. The airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches turbulently from the wings. Take for instance an airplane that is accelerating to gain elevation and then slows to go into a turn. After reading this study, I was intrigued to learn more about flow separation and how Tecplot’s solution helped scientists better understand this complex phenomenon.įlow separation occurs when the air traveling over a surface “detaches” from that surface, causing increased drag. Tecplot, Inc., one of Communiqué PR’s newest clients, recently helped scientists from MIT shed light on a century-old mystery surrounding flow separation.
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