Post-Processing Built In, Not Bolted On
GT-POST is a dedicated post-processing environment for reviewing and comparing results, not a generic plotting add-on.
Industries
Aerospace
Supporting thermal, fluid, and propulsion system modeling for aircraft and spacecraft applications.
OVERVIEW
A Single Platform Spanning Space and Air
GT-SUITE is a 0D/1D/3D multi-physics system simulation platform, with validated, robust solvers to tackle fluid, thermal, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemistry, and controls multi-physics problems. This unified platform enables domains that don’t usually share a vendor: launch vehicles and spacecraft, electrified and hybrid aircraft including eVTOL, and conventional gas-turbine and piston-engine aircraft. Whether the question is tank boil-off on a cryogenic upper stage, thermal runaway risk in an eVTOL battery pack, or predicting emissions of sustainable fuels, it’s the same coupled-physics approach and the same environment.
SPACE & LAUNCH SYSTEMS
Energy, Propulsion and Cryogenics for Launch Vehicles and Satellites
From feed system to thruster, GT-SUITE models the full propellant path in one place, propellant composition to combustion, tank to orbit. That single model is what let organization perform transient simulation of
- Fuel and oxidizer feed systems, turbopumps, and helium pressurization, including water-hammer and surge events
- Combustion from propellant composition (C-H-O-N), equilibrium or full chemical kinetics, no products table needed
- Catalyst models for monopropellant decomposition in reaction-control thrusters
- Two-phase cryogenic flow on NIST fluid data (H2, O2, methane, helium, nitrogen): boil-off, self-pressurization, line chilldown
- On-orbit thermal loading on energy storage and propulsion hardware
ELECTRIFIED AIRCRAFT & EVTOL
Battery-to-Rotor Simulation for eVTOL and Electric Aircraft
GT-SUITE models the full electric propulsion chain, cell to propeller, in one connected model.
- Batteries, fuel cells as power sources, in any combination, in one model
- Full-electric configurations sized down to the fuel cell stack: cell count, anode stoichiometry, H2 and air mass flow rates
- Battery pack thermal performance and thermal-runaway risk prediction, cell to vehicle level
- Real-time coupling with FLIGHTLAB for combined airframe and drive-system dynamics, including VTOL-to-cruise transition
- GT-AutoLion physics-based aging, calibrated to cycle/calendar test data, for multi-year range projection
- Fleet-planning numbers operators actually need: range degradation over years of real mission profiles
CONVENTIONAL & HYBRID PROPULSION
Gas Turbine, Piston, and Hybrid Propulsion, One Modular Model
One modular engine-building approach covers turbine, piston, and hybrid architectures, without switching platforms.
- Turbofans, turboprops, turboshafts, APUs, piston engines, ramjets, pulsejets, and non-standard configurations, one modular library
- Compressible, time-accurate Navier-Stokes solver with validated compressor and turbine maps
- Equilibrium or kinetic combustion chemistry, mission-level and component-level fidelity.
- Emissions modeling at all stages of the engine
- SIL/HIL/real-time capable for controls development
THERMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
One Thermal Model, From Cabin Comfort to Cryogenic Line
One thermal modeling approach covers cabin comfort, avionics, and battery or propulsion system cooling, so nothing gets sized in isolation.
- Complete ECS models: air cycle or vapor-compression, cabin, avionics, fuel systems, gearboxes
- Advanced heat exchanger design
- 3D CAD to 1D flow network or 3D cabin model, temperature, flow in any thermal system
- GT-TAITherm coupling for human-body occupant comfort
- One integrated physics library extends the same thermal modeling to battery pack to turbine cooling
SIMULATION FEATURES
One modular engine-building approach covers turbine, piston, and hybrid architectures, without switching platforms.
Models That Export Cleanly
Export as FMU or reduced-order model, so results and models move into your existing toolchain and digital-twin environment without format friction.
One Solver, No Stitching
Fluid, thermal, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemistry and controls solved together, not coupled across separate tools for the core physics.
Heat Exchanger Modeling, Any Fidelity
Model heat exchangers from simple initial studies to full detail in the same environment, a known pain point for legacy thermal-fluid tools.
3D CFD Brought Into the System Model
Resolve unevenly distributed flow through a component with 3D CFD results, without leaving the system-level model to do it.
NIST-Backed Fluid Properties, Cryogenic to Space
Two-phase cryogenic and refrigerant properties, including hydrogen, oxygen, methane, helium and nitrogen, for spacecraft and launch systems.
Electrified Powertrain, Cell to Propeller
Batteries, fuel cells, motors and power electronics in one connected model, for electric and eVTOL aircraft.
SIL/HIL and Real-Time, One Model
The same model supports desktop study and hardware-in-the-loop testing, so nothing gets rebuilt for the next program phase.
Coupled to GT-TAITherm
3D radiation boundary conditions feed straight into GT-SUITE, for on-orbit cryogenic loads or cabin occupant comfort.
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