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Industry / 01 · Aerodynamics

The Physics-AI Layer For Aerodynamic Design

We build digital twins for external flow problems — airfoils, blades, ducted geometries, rotor systems — where designers need to sweep thousands of geometries against multi-objective constraints, and operators need lift/drag predictions in real time.

/ Where this fits

Aerospace, energy (wind), automotive, UAM, drones, fans & blowers — anywhere external flow drives performance.

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10³×
Speed-up vs. full RANS CFD
2.4%
RMSE vs. validation set
800+
Geometries swept per design cycle
<10ms
Inference latency per design
/ 01 — Use Cases

What we model for aero teams.

Four common deployments — each a domain where slow CFD blocks the design loop and pure ML can't be trusted by the regulator.

/ 01

Airfoil & Wing Design

Sweep parametric airfoil families against lift-to-drag, stall margin, and noise objectives. The twin predicts pressure distributions and integrated forces across the Reynolds and angle-of-attack envelope.

PINNs · RANS surrogate Pressure field L/D · CL · CD Stall prediction
/ 02

Turbomachinery Blades

Compressor & turbine blade aerodynamic surrogates. Loss prediction across off-design conditions, blade-row interaction modeling, and through-flow correction for preliminary design tools.

Physics-guided ML k-ω SST Off-design Loss models
/ 03

External Vehicle Aerodynamics

Drag prediction for vehicles, drones, and rotorcraft. Shape-aware surrogates that handle continuous geometric variation without remeshing — and stay physics-consistent on novel shapes.

Shape-aware surrogate CD prediction Drone / UAM
/ 04

Wind & Renewable Energy

Wind turbine blade aerodynamics, wake prediction, and farm-level yield modeling. Multifidelity: high-fidelity LES anchors the training; a fast PINN-derived surrogate runs in the control loop.

Multifidelity LES + surrogate Wake Wind energy
/ 02 — Method

Why PINNs are usually right for aero.

For continuous external flow, the governing equations are fully encodable. That's the regime where PINNs are most proven — and where they outperform pure data-driven ML.

Physics-residual training · no labels needed.

The network is constrained to satisfy mass, momentum, and energy conservation — encoded directly into the loss. The result extrapolates to off-design conditions where pure data-driven models silently fail.

Primary method · PINNs
  • Governing equations (Navier–Stokes) encoded into loss
  • No labeled CFD data required at training
  • Strong out-of-distribution generalization
  • Differentiable end-to-end — pluggable into optimization
  • Backstopped by RANS / LES validation runs
/ 03 — Toolkit applied

What we use from the OpSimTech stack.

An aero deployment combines high-fidelity CFD, physics-AI acceleration, and a real-time twin layer.

/ 04 — Outcomes

What aero teams ship with us.

A few representative deployments. More on the case studies page.

/ 05 — Other industries

Browse our other verticals.

/ 06 — Get in touch

Bring us your
aero problem.
We'll bring the physics.

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