User's Manual for a Fully Automatic Three-Dimensional Potential-Flow Calculation Method. Part II. With Viscous Correction by Small Crossflow Boundary-Layer Analysis.

Abstract

This report describes a computer program which calculates three-dimensional viscous effects on the lift and pressure distributions of arbitrary three-dimensional bodies. The program is a combination of a panel method, which computes the potential flow about arbitrary three-dimensional lifting configurations, and a three-dimensional boundary-layer method, which calculates the viscous effects with small crossflow. These effects are applied to the three-dimensional shape, as in Part 1, in a 'strip-theory' sense and the resultant viscous lift and pressure distributions are again produced. The method of simulating the boundary layer in the final potential-flow calculation is by the addition of the displacement thickness to the original shape. The computer program is written in Fortran IV for the IBM 370 systems. 16 temporary external units are used for storage. The region size needed to execute the program is about 360K bytes, but this is a direct function of the number of elements defining the configuration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA047439

Entities

People

  • Dun-pok Mack

Organizations

  • Douglas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computer Programs
  • Curvature
  • Data Sets
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Leading Edges
  • Lifting Bodies
  • Potential Flow
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Stagnation Point
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trailing Edges

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Computer Science.
  • Structural Dynamics.