Vision 2030 Roadmap Progress and Technology Highlights for 2021

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Abstract

In 2021, the AIAA CFD Vision 2030 IC Roadmap subcommittee released a report reviewing progress and challenges associated with the technology items identified on the Roadmap from its initial release through 2020. This document identified that while significant progress had been made on key technology demonstration items, many of the original milestones were behind schedule. With some of the findings since 2014, some of these milestones are less critical at present and new items of study have been identified. This report was followed by a companion paper [2] presented at AIAA Aviation that provided an updated Roadmap with shifted milestones and the addition of new technology milestones as well as enhanced Domain definitions. This paper also provided a TRL level scale to measure technology development appropriate for this type of community-level activity and performed an initial assessment of the tasks. More detailed descriptions were also provided to assist in quantifying progress.