About Desktop Aeronautics

Desktop Aeronautics is a small consulting and software company dedicated to providing solutions in aerospace conceptual design and aerodynamic detailed design. We offer a variety of software products that exploit recent advances in desktop computing capabilities to provide useful results with rapid turn-around. These products range from specific aerodynamic analysis tools to full aircraft conceptual design applications. A designer equipped with these tools can rapidly perform comprehensive trade studies with time honored analysis methods early in the design process. The speed of these tools also allows for multi-variable and even multidisciplinary design optimization to help the engineer identify designs not normally discovered using traditional conceptual design methods. Applying numerical optimization methods early in the design process can significantly reduce the time needed by the engineer to identify an optimal design.

As a consulting company, we offer solutions to many of the challenging design problems that aerospace companies face today. We possess significant in-house computing power to allow us to complete consulting tasks efficiently and to provide our services to customers who may not have access to computing resources. Please visit our web pages on consulting services and publications for more details.

Desktop Aeronautics also offers educational software. With this software, students can attack real design problems and develop an intuitive understanding of important results previously acquired only through years of experience. This software is also conveniently priced to be affordable to students and educators.

User-friendly aerodynamic design and analysis software is now available for most operating systems as our software is designed to be platform-independent. Site license arrangements are also available for many programs. This web site describes the range of products offered by Desktop Aeronautics.