Grid Based Approach to Stores Separation

Abstract

Since early in the development of aerodynamic computational tools, when complex aircraft configurations could for the first time be accurately represented, the Holy Grail of the CFD community became predicting the trajectory of a store from an aircraft. However, the participants could never agree on either what would constitute a successful prediction, or what computational approach should be used. Many claimed that store separation was an unsteady phenomenon, and that the solutions would have to be done in a time dependent manner (this despite the multitude of evidence to the Contrary, where quasi-steady wind tunnel simulations in almost all cases have shown excellent agreement with the flight test results).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382848

Entities

People

  • A. Cenko
  • N. Stathopoulos
  • S. Davids

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamics
  • Agreements
  • Aircrafts
  • Coefficients
  • Data Sets
  • Experimental Data
  • Flight Testing
  • Flow Fields
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Trajectories
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Educational Psychology
  • Fluid Dynamics.