CAPE - Computational Aerosciences Productivity & Execution(ARC-18753-1)

CAPE is software that provides an end-to-end framework for running large numbers of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations, extracting aerodynamic performance data, and building high-quality, complex aerodynamic databases. Computational Aerosciences Productivity & Execution (CAPE) is thus a software package that aims to dramatically improve the capabilities and productivity of CFD users.CAPE enables more complex run matrices and improved procedures for other CFD or Computational Aerosciences tools. Version 1.0 provides a common interface for Cart3D, FUN3D, and OVERFLOW. CAPE takes a tip-to-tail approach to the computational aerosciences process; its interface supports case set up, running the actual CFD solver in a supercomputing environment, report generation, data extraction, and creating high-quality databases. CAPE does NOT include any of the supported CFD solvers, which must be acquired separately.This tool is distributed as a Python package, which makes it easy to install. Within NASA, the CAPE package has an extensive history with large CFD run matrices and many terabytes of data. Examples in support of the Space Launch System Program include studies separately involving about 25,000 Cart3D cases, 1500 OVERFLOW cases, and 15,000 FUN3D cases.