Review of CFD Capabilities

Abstract

The study evaluated the current state of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the likely opportunities to further improve CFD over the next 20 years. This briefing summarizes those findings and includes overall findings. Description of approaches to CFD, including historic development of CFD capabilities and likely future development paths. Discussion of metrics for characterizing CFD, including impact on the design process, the state of maturity of CFD, and the cost of CFD relative to physical test infrastructure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA537587

Entities

People

  • Christopher Martin
  • Dan Garretson
  • Hans Mair
  • Jeremy Teichman
  • Kay Sullivan

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Design
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Boundary Layer
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Reliability
  • Test Facilities
  • Viscous Flow
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.