A long-standing co-operation with Airbus has seen ICON working on the design and improvement of ventilation systems for a number of different aircraft programmes such as the A380, A380-F, A340/330, A400M, A350XWB

In the case of the A380, Airbus’ next generation full double-deck passenger aircraft, the intention of this work was to:

• investigate the practicality of handling models for very
• develop an efficient work process including testing the
  suitability of CD-adapco’s new STAR-CCM+ solver
• investigate the cabin flow field in a complete “closed”
  domain by erasing the problems associated with additional
  unknown boundary conditions
• investigate the flow in the stairhouses and its effect on the
  adjacent cabin areas

The full press release is available here.