An Evaluation of the NEKTON Program

Abstract

This report describes the David Taylor Research Center's experiences with the NEKTON program, a computational fluid dynamics tool developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The theory and applications of the program are reviewed in a literature survey. A number of test cases were run successfully at DTRC and the results are promising. The applicability of NEKTON to high Reynolds number flows with three-dimensional complex geometries will require further study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA237888

Entities

People

  • Bill H. Cheng
  • Janet S. Dean
  • Ronald W. Miller

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Couette Flow
  • Differential Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Literature Surveys
  • Materials
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Operating Systems
  • Reynolds Number
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Systems Analysis and Design