FlightStream

Research in Flight | Website | Version 2023.2

Available For Use By

Students
Faculty
Staff

Permitted Uses

Research
Classwork
Administrative Use

Restrictions None

Available Via

Legacy VCL
AVD
Eos Labs
Specific Teaching Lab

Where It May Be Installed

University Owned Computers
Virtualized environments
Personally Owned Computers

Description

FlightStream^® revolutionizes aerodynamic design and analysis, offering solutions for a variety of vehicles from subsonic to hypersonic. Its unstructured surface-mesh solver and intuitive GUI reduce time and complexity compared to traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers.

Versatile and powerful, FlightStream^® seamlessly integrates with CAD software and excels in aerospace, marine, and alternative energy applications, delivering high-fidelity results with minimal mesh size and user input. FlightStream^® enables aerodynamic analysis and efficient aircraft conceptual design, providing invaluable insights into aircraft performance and stability.

Download

3 December 2024: Due to problems with the FlightStream license server, Research in Flight has made the FlightStream 2023.2 software available to MAE students on a temporary basis. This allows students to download FlightStream to their own computers.

FlightStream is only available for Windows.
Because this is a standalone license, no connection to the NCSU network or the NCSU VPN is necessary.
It includes a built-in license that expires 31 January 2025.
To install:
- Download the FlightStream_2023-2_exp_2025_01_31.zip file below and unzip it.
- The resulting folder will contain six files. One of them is FlightStream.exe. Just run that and FlightStream will run, with an expiration date of 31 January 2025.
Check this page in January 2025 for plans going forward regarding access to FlightStream.