Joby Aviation expands partnership with Flexcompute leveraging Flow360 for next-generation aircraft design and multiphysics analysis

Flexcompute, the leader in GPU-native high-performance simulation, announced at the 2025 Paris Air Show that Joby Aviation will be leveraging its flagship solver, Flow360, to accelerate the future development of Joby's next-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. From vertical integration in design and manufacturing to real-world flight testing, certification, and a relentless focus on noise reduction, Joby Aviation sets the benchmark for the eVTOL industry.

This deepened partnership will enable Joby Aviation to dramatically shorten design cycles and perform high-fidelity aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analyses using Flow360's end-to-end workflow. With this expansion, Joby Aviation will expand Flow360 for multiphysics analysis to design future quiet and efficient aircraft for urban air mobility.

"Flow360 is reshaping how we think about the depth of analysis throughout the design process. With faster execution, seamless integration, reliable accuracy, and scalable computing power, we can spend less time managing tools and more time solving the real physics challenges," said Gregor Veble Mikić, Chief Aerodynamicist at Joby Aviation.

With Flow360 running on modern GPUs, simulation runtimes that traditionally took days or weeks are now reduced to hours, or even minutes. This performance uplift is critical throughout the design development cycle as it enables rapid and comprehensive understanding of the design evolution and its associated flow phenomena.

Key benefits for Joby Aviation include:

- Early Concept Design: Iterate quickly with confidence, exploring more ideas faster.

- Aero Database Development: Build accurate aerodynamic models across large flight envelopes to reduce design cycle iterations

- Aeroacoustics: Simulate propeller acoustics in hours, not days.

- New capabilities: Explore multiphysics capabilities beyond aerodynamics, enabling a broader range of integrated simulations

Flexcompute President Vera Yang added: "At Flexcompute, we're proud to support that leadership. With Flow360, we enable Joby to run high-fidelity simulations to accelerate the optimization of aerodynamics and acoustics across a wide flight envelope. This partnership reflects our shared belief: that faster, quieter, and safer urban air mobility isn't a distant future, it's within reach."

As the aerospace industry pushes toward quieter, more efficient, and more sustainable flight, Joby's use of Flow360 marks a shift in simulation-driven design, one where fidelity, speed, and agility are no longer tradeoffs.