AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Because flying should be safe

Epsilon’s experience in aeronautical problem-solving includes:

• Aerodynamic design and analysis
• Aircraft performance analysis
• Weapons/Stores integration analysis, modeling and simulation
• Aero-structural design and stress analysis
• Analysis of ballistic systems
• Parametric studies and parameter estimation
• Flight test management and test data analysis
• Design and development of software related to aerodynamics

Aerodynamics

Epsilon's engineers have many years' combined experience in developing aerodynamic codes,  from panel-methods to Euler solvers for use in-house and under contract. Previous employment endowed our engineers with experience operating wind-tunnels and aircraft aerodynamic design complementing our on-going analytical and flight-test aerodynamics involvement.

We still conduct aerodynamic designs for aircraft and weapons.
 

Flight Mechanics

Projects requiring aircraft design and performance analysis have been our opportunity to apply our wind-tunnel and computational aerodynamics expertise to analysis of flight controls and mechanics. This has been augmented by and contributed to our understanding of control systems.
 

Aeroelasticity

• Although not a primary service offered by Epsilon, our engineers have worked in, and have an extensive knowledge and experience in the aeroelasticity field, including:
  • ground vibration testing,
  • structural dynamics analysis (numerical => FEM),
  • unsteady aerodynamics code development,
  • buffeting prediction and analysis,
  • non-linear aeroelasticity,
  • comprehensive experience in flutter flight testing,
  • flight flutter testing systems, and
  • high bandwidth simultaneous data acquisition, conditioning and analysis.