Engineering Your Success

Vorticity is an SME and started trading in August 2002. The company has two divisions: Systems Engineering and Programme Management. The Systems Engineering Division provides consultancy over a range of aerospace topics but specialises in spacecraft, entry descent and landing system analysis, design and development. The Programme Management division provides consultancy on programme management, programme control, cost engineering and large IT system development.

Key personnel at Vorticity led the development of the parachute system that took the Huygens probe down to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Vorticity is currently working on the development of the parachute and airbag systems for the ESA ExoMars mission in addition to contributing to the aerothermal analysis. Vorticity consulted to JPL on the MER parachute system and recently supported JPL in the Mars Science Laboratory mission using fluid structure interaction techniques to predict the parachute aerodynamic performance throughout its operational envelope.

The company is pioneering the use of LS-DYNA software to model a range of complex problems including airbag landing system dynamics, supersonic parachute aerodynamics and high speed impacts.