Kitware at AIAA SciTech Forum 2026
January 12–16, 2026 | Orlando, Florida | Booth #140
At this year’s AIAA SciTech, Kitware is showcasing how aerospace teams push the limits of CFD and flight simulation. Our tools and workflows support high-fidelity aerodynamics and large-scale flight simulations to help engineers streamline processes, integrate advanced visualization, and gain real-time insights from even the most complex datasets.
Visit us at Booth #140 to speak with our engineers, see live demonstrations, and learn how we support aerospace research from early-stage concepts to fielded operational systems.
Free Visualization Consultations at Booth #140
Bring your CFD or flight-physics data and work 1:1 with Kitware’s engineers to explore your datasets, test interactive visual workflows, and identify ways to make your current processes faster and more effective. We’ll walk through your data using ParaView and modern in-situ-ready tools designed for large-scale analysis.
Modern Visual Workflows for CFD & Flight Physics
Modern aerospace R&D demands high-fidelity modeling, fast iteration cycles, and reproducible workflows. Kitware delivers open, performance-optimized solutions that enable teams to explore, interpret, and communicate complex simulation data at scale.
At AIAA, we’ll showcase how Kitware helps aerospace organizations:
- Build interactive visual pipelines across desktop, HPC, and cloud platforms
- Streamline CFD and flight physics workflows from preprocessing through post-processing
- Integrate advanced visualization directly into proprietary engineering environments
- Deploy reproducible in situ processing to minimize data movement and storage costs
- Optimize high-performance visualization for unsteady, large-scale CFD
Combined with custom application development and long-term technical support, these capabilities empower teams to accelerate insight and ensure sustained program success.
Real-World Applications
Kitware to Bring AI into NASA Simulations
Kitware is integrating AI into NASA’s aerospace simulations using open source tools that integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. Engineers can gain faster insights, reduce compute time, and explore complex simulations, starting with CFD, without changing how they work.
Accelerate Insight with In Situ Analysis and Catalyst
ParaView Catalyst enables real-time analysis and visualization directly within simulations. Scientists and engineers can detect errors early, explore data interactively, and optimize workflows (scalable from desktops to exascale supercomputers), turning massive datasets into immediate, high-fidelity insights.
ParaView Powers Real-Time Digital Twins
Stream live sensor data, visualize in 3D, and run predictive AI models, all in real time. ParaView and LidarView turn Digital Twins into interactive, insight-driven tools for monitoring, simulation, and decision-making across industries.
CFD Post-Processing with ParaView: Tornado Impact on Buildings
ParaView allows engineers to analyze complex CFD simulations, such as tornado effects on urban structures, with high-fidelity visualizations. Advanced filters and particle tracing enable the extraction of pressure coefficients, the tracking of airflow, and the efficient comparison of multiple scenarios. The result: interactive, high-quality insights from large, time-dependent datasets for wind engineering and beyond.
Kitware’s Technical Contributions
An Efficient I/O Framework For In Situ Data Extracts
Workshop Paper
Authors: Corey Wetterer-Nelson, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator), Caitlin Ross, Ph.D., Berk Geveci, Ph.D., Christos Tsolakis, Jeff Lee
High-performance computing and large-scale simulation are critical to U.S. innovation and national security, but emerging architectures and massive data outputs are pushing traditional workflows to their limits. As simulations approach exascale, they generate data volumes that exceed storage systems’ capacity, making post-processing increasingly impractical. In situ processing addresses this challenge by enabling analysis and visualization during simulation, dramatically reducing data movement, improving efficiency, and enabling real-time steering. Kitware leads the advancement of these workflows through ParaView Catalyst and ADIOS, and has demonstrated scalable M-to-N data aggregation techniques that deliver high-performance I/O and analysis in modern HPC environments.
Schedule a Meeting with Our Team
Kitware is proud to support aerospace research with open, scalable, and future-ready software solutions. Schedule your free visualization consultation.