Case study Check if the document is available in the language of your choice. Consider the engine power required to get a plane off the ground. And then consider the engineering that goes into it. Brian Mitchell does. Every day. The senior principal engineer at GE Global Research leads the development of GE’s in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. Engineers utilize CFD to design better compressor blades, fan blades, turbine blades—all the stuff of the modern jet engine. “What we do is write the software that GE Aviation uses to simulate the air flow in jet engines,” says Dr. Mitchell. In fact, engine design, CFD, and the powerful computers to process it all have a strongly symbiotic relationship. Market demand for more fuel-efficient engines requires more creati

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