Hawker Beechcraft has selected CAPRI CAE Gateway in its CFD design and analysis process along with the Chimera Grid Tools and OVERFLOW package from NASA Ames. CAPRI provides a robust and accurate path to import complex models directly from major CAD systems, with minimum user intervention, into the Chimera Grid Tools system. The direct CAD access enabled by CAPRI eliminates inaccuracies, bottlenecks, and additional steps typically encountered when using CAD data in simulations.

"The resurgence of the general aviation industry in the latter half of this decade is bringing about new products from aircraft companies like Hawker Beechcraft. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodology is being utilized more than ever in the design and analysis of our new aircraft. The CAPRI CAE Gateway software from CADNexus is proving to be of great value in moving a geometry quickly and accurately from a CAD model to the start of the CFD analysis process using OVERFLOW." comments Mr. Paul Paden of CFD - Advanced Aerodynamics group at Hawker Beechcraft.