Preparing the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Transport Aircraft for Flight

Image showing the pressure wave radiating from the LM 1044 low-boom wind-tunnel model. Dark blue denotes low pressure, yellow denotes higher pressure. The top left cutout shows an image of the solution-adapted Mach-aligned off-body. The bottom right cutout shows the relative sizes of the near field computational fluid dynamics domain (pink) and the space marching domain (blue).

Image Credit: NASA/Ames, Jeffery Housman