The long computation times required to simulate complete aircraft configurations remain as the main bottleneck in the design flow of new structures for the aeronautics industry. In this paper, the novel application of specific hardware (FPGAs) in conjunction with conventional processors to accelerate CFD is explored in detail. First, some general facts about application-specific hardware are presented, placing the focus on the feasibility of the development of hardware modules (FPGAs based) for the acceleration of most time-consuming algorithms in aeronautics analysis. Then, a practical methodology for developing an FPGA-based computing solution for the quasi 1D Euler equations is applied to the Sod's 'Shock Tube' problem. Results comparing CPU-based and FPGA-based solutions are presented, showing that speedups around two orders of magnitude can be expected from the FPGA-based implementation. Finally, some conclusions about this novel approach are drawn.
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