Front Tracking on Problems of US Air Force Interests SFFP (Preprint)
Abstract
We report the collaborative efforts and initiatives on research of three problems which are of potential interests to the US Air Force. We have investigated two problems during the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) and started the third one. These problems include the study of transonic shock formation on the aircraft wings, parachute inflation, and the simulation of airplane icing tests. Our approach is the front tracking method developed at Stony Brook University. We compared the front tracking simulation on a couple of bench mark problems with AERO Suite and demonstrate that the front tracking code is a cost-free public domain software platform for both research and education on the physics of supersonic and transonic ow around the aircraft wings. We report major progress on the study of parachute inflation through first principle fluid equations and the meso-scale spring-mass model. We proposed an initiative on the numerical study of airplane icing through inter-operable computation of the phase transition module and the incompressible fluid module in the front tracking code.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 25, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA607605
Entities
People
- Bernard Moore
- Xiaolin Li
Organizations
- State University of New York