This speedup is a 2x improvement for 1997. Select call statements have been reduced from 5x to 1x per iteration. The predictive simulation of combustors will reduce the number of required hardware tests, and their associated costs, during an engine design program. The goal of the combustor modeling project, and NPSS, is to provide a tool that can significantly reduce design time, risk and the cost associated with designing advanced gas turbine engines. Continued improvements in the areas of numerical speedup, parallel performance and model fidelity are planned for FY98.
Plans are to reduce the total elapsed time for combustor simulation to overnight.