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Schiebel S100 VTOL UAV Featured in "Unmanned Vehicles"
The Schiebel S100 UAV helicopter was the cover feature in the November 2006 issue of Shepherd's "Unmanned Vehicles". The S100 is a 400-lb class autonomous helicopter
that is already in use with the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Afghanistan, and total of over 80 vehicles are in use or under construction for the
UAE armed forces.
The initial aerodynamic design work on the S100 vehicle was performed at CDI in 2002-2003, with a combined effort involving computational modeling using the
CDI CHARM model as well as hover testing of the full scale main rotor. For full details on the S100 Camcopter, its specifications,
and its current operational use, see www.schiebel.net.
8th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids & Solution Technology
The 8th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids and Solution Technology was held at the Gilruth Center at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas from October 2nd - 5th,
2006. Continuum Dynamics, Inc. chose this venue to formally unveil its new Eulerian CFD wake module, the VorTran-M,
for eliminating the numerical diffusion and smearing of vorticity in primitive variable CFD solvers to the public. CDI gave a technical presentation, entitled "Novel
Eulerian Vorticity Transport Wake Module for Rotorcraft Flow Analysis", which described the development and capabilities of the VorTran-M
module. Copies of the symposium program and proceedings can be found at this website:
http://www.arl.hpc.mil/events/Overset2006/index.html.
The 62nd Annual AHS Forum
The 62nd Annual American Helicopter Society Forum was held in the Phoenix Civic Plaza in Phoenix Arizona on May 9th - 11th, 2006 and for the 7th
consecutive year, Continuum Dynamics, Inc. sponsored a booth in the exhibit hall providing technology demonstrations and technical briefings.
Technical papers were presented describing new CDI software enhancements for high fidelity modeling of rotorcraft brownout
and coaxial rotor aerodynamics and acoustics. Technical briefings highlighted advanced aerodynamic modules under
development at CDI that couple into existing flight simulation software to provide high fidelity modeling of brownout and
multiple aircraft/ship wake interactions within flight simulation software. Demonstrations of CDI's CHARM real-time free-vortex
wake model; MAST multiple aircraft/ship wake simulation module; and a new physics-based
brownout module were performed.
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