Calculating Vortices for Finned Missiles Using the WIND Flow Solver

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is interested in applying state-of-the-art computational tools to the study of projectile aerodynamics at angle of attack and moderate Mach number. The WIND flow solver has been used to study the aerodynamics of two missile configurations. WIND successfully incorporates grids generated by the GridPro grid generation package. WIND gives good scalability and good overall performance on parallel computer platforms. This report discusses several aspects of interest concerning generating grids to use with WIND and the process of obtaining solutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392981

Entities

People

  • David J. Haroldsen
  • Walter B. Sturek

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamics
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Experimental Data
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Mach Number
  • Military Research
  • Parallel Processing
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Projectiles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Operations Research