Experimental and computational data analysis in CHARLES and DARWIN

NASA Ames Research Center has developed several advanced distributed information systems to assist the distribution, analysis and management of data from experimental and numerical tests on aircraft wings and other aeronautical components. These systems provide immediate access to numerical aeronautics simulations and redefine the analysis operations for classic wind tunnel tests. The information systems built to make this possible are called CHARLES, enabling distributed access to computational fluid dynamic results, and DARWIN, which enables wind tunnel test results to be produced and made available to industry customers in near real time from active tests and from archival storage. This paper will provide details on data analysis with the DARWIN and CHARLES systems.