While developing information technology and improving engineering environment, modern aerospace technology requires even larger scale computing and data management. However, the technology faces difficulty to use isolated resources. Therefore, needs arise to construct network based and integrated design and analysis system. In order to provide a uniform aerospace development infrastructure, three perspectives are required (i.e., integration and management of aerospace resources located in multiple organizations and areas; facilitating human collaboration in aerospace fields; and remote access and operation of aerospace facilities and instruments). National e-Science project has been developing by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Information and Communication in Korea. Many worldwide organizations and institutes have conducted research on the development of e-Science paradigm. USA NASA has focused on information power grid (IPG), which is designed for environment of real time design, manufacturing, and maintenance of aircraft in grid base. In the United Kingdom, grid based researches is classified into mainly two systems: grid based aircraft multi-discipline optimal design system (GEODISE) and grid based real-time aircraft operation and maintenance system (DAME). In Japan, grid based supersonic aircraft design focused on a sort of integrated aerospace, full cell, materials design, and regional environment. The national e-Science of Korea is commonly contributing to construct of aerospace e-Science (called e-AIRS project). In e-AIRS project, design/analysis network for aerospace vehicle based on national grid system has been constructed. It also provides collaborative use of aerospace test facilities and equipments dispersed in organizations, institute, industry, and academia. In addition, this project also aims to construct infrastructure for collaborative use of information and database for aerospace vehicle design/analysis.

This presentation will address an overview of e-AIRS research activities and a concept demonstration about e-Science portal interface, integrated mesh generation and CFD computation services, and parametric study service for high throughput computing. The parametric study service, which is working on Grid environment, has flexibility to be extended to design optimization. A remote request service for wind tunnel experiments and a collaboration service consisting of video/audio conferences are also introduced.

Dr. Min-Joong Jeong, Applied Research Team, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), South Korea
Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, USA

Dr. Min-Joong Jeong is an application manager of the Applied Research Team, KISTI. His duties include managing KISTI e-Science projects and establishing e-Science applied research activities. He is now on the research fields of predictions of protein structures and several optimization applications such as a sensor monitoring for structural safety. Dr. Jeong completed his Ph.D. in the University of Tokyo, with the dissertation, entitled "Integrated Support System for Decision-Making in Design Optimization." He carried out finite element based simulations for mechanical design of various modern artifacts such as MEMS, turbine blades, and satellite heat pumps in a Grid environment (i.e., computers in remote sites connected through networks and internet). Dr. Jeong also developed specific algorithms for interpretation of a number of design solutions integrating evolutionary clustering and multi-dimensional interactive visualization.

Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, and he has worked for the past eight years in the design and manufacturing engineering area. His research interests include collaborative product development, CAD/CAM, and telerehabilitation. Prior to joining Wayne State University, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the United States National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design at the University of Pittsburgh, and was leading the Virtual Prototyping and Simulation research group. In the I/UCRC, an assembly design formalism and associate tools was developed to capture assembly/joining information and to provide mathematically solvable implications for design collaboration. Another project, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) at the U.S. Department of Education, is to develop a telerehabilitation system for wheeled mobility devices using semantic information, telecommunication, collaborative virtual simulation, and decision supporting technologies. Currently, Dr. Kim is Director of the Laboratory for Engineered system Automation and Development (LEAD) and co-director of Product Development and Systems Engineering Consortium (PDSEC) at Wayne State University. His education degrees include a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Chonbuk National University, South Korea; and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, USA.