Ansys will support research led by the University of Central Florida and funded by a $10 million NASA University Leadership Initiative five-year grant to accelerate aviation sustainability. The project aims to develop zero-carbon jet engines using liquid ammonia (NH(3)) as an alternate, more sustainable fuel for aircraft. Ansys' simulation solutions will be used as a key enabler of the project to both validate the use of ammonia and achieve the outcome within the desired timeline.

By integrating Ansys' chemical kinetics and computational fluid dynamics simulation tools, Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent, researchers will simulate complex, chemical reaction systems surrounding ammonia, including the vaporization of liquid ammonia inside heat exchange tubes, heat transfer, and the combustion of ammonia and hydrogen in the air. The goal is to use ammonia as a main hydrogen carrier by inducing chemical catalysis to leverage ammonia's hydrogen components while only releasing safe emissions into the air.