Numerical Simulation of the Flow Field Around a Complete Aircraft,

Abstract

The present effort represents a first attempt of numerical simulation of the flow field around a complete aircraft like, lifting configuration utilization the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The numerical solution generated for the experimental aircraft concept X24C-10D at a Mach number of 5.95 not only exhibited accurate prediction of detailed flow properties but also of the integrated aerodynamic coefficients. In addition, the present analysis demonstrated that a page structure of data collected into cyclic blocks is an efficient and viable means for processing the Navier-Stokes equations on the CRAY XMP-22 computer with external memory device.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADP005138

Entities

People

  • J. S. Shang
  • S. J. Scherr

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mach Number
  • Memory Devices
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)