You can make our ARCHER2 paper plane.

Print off the template sheet, double sided.

Then follow the folding instructions, folding along the numbered lines in order.

Now you can launch your plane on a test flight: hopefully it will glide gracefully across the room, but if instead it crumples catastrophically on the carpet, well, it was just a paper plane!

Imagine the issues testing a new full-size plane, though. The time required to build it, the expense, and the danger to those involved in testing, is massive.

Creating a computer simulation also takes time, but, once created, it can be tested without danger, and small changes can easily be made and tested until a promising version can be built, with confidence that it is likely to be successful.

Simulations can also be used in the development and testing of many other huge engineering projects.

Delayed detached-eddy simulation of a large civil aircraft in transonic flow
Dr Sebastian Timme, University of Liverpool, Department of Engineering

Turbulence-resolving simulation of the wake behind two in-line wind turbines
Georgios Deskos, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London

Music, order and chaos in a combustion chamber
Mr Ivan Langella, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering