Aircraft Design Tools

Aircraft Design Tools

Invaluable Design Software

Aerodynamics

CD-adapco STAR-CCM+
OpenFOAM
XFlow
MultiElement Airfoils
MultiSurface Aerodynamics
Stallion 3D
VisualFoil
VisualFoil Plus
GoCart
Cart3D
RAGE
ANSYS Fluids

Airfoils

XFOIL
DesignFOIL
FoilSim

CAD

Autodesk AutoCAD
Autodesk Inventor
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Dassault Systemes CATIA
Siemens Solid Edge
Siemens NX Design
Shark FX-AP

Design

Advanced Aircraft Analysis
RDS
OpenVSP
ADS – Aircraft Design Software
CEASIOM
AVID Sofware Suite

Flight Dynamics

j2 Aircraft Dynamics
JSBSim

MDAO

OpenMDAO

Performance

Aircraft Performance Program

Simulation

j2 Aircraft Dynamics
MathWorks Simscape Multibody
MathWorks MATLAB
JSBSim

Structures

FAR 23 LOADS
Femap
MSC Nastran
MSC Patran
ANSYS Structures