Experimental and Computational Study of the X-59 Wind Tunnel Model at Glenn Research Center 8- by 6-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

The Commercial Supersonics Technology (CST) Project under the NASA Advanced Air
Vehicles Program (AAVP) focuses on developing technologies for enabling designs of future
commercial supersonic aircraft. Many different technology areas are being addressed, such as
designing airframes for better efficiency, improving engine integration for minimizing noise,
maximizing combustion efficiency, and reducing high-altitude emissions, but the greatest
emphasis has been on understanding the contributions to sonic boom loudness and learning how
to shape the airframe and integrate the engine(s) such that the boom noise is minimized.