Toward an Efficient Icing CFD Process Using an Interactive Software Toolkit--SmaggIce 2D
Abstract
Two-dimensional CFD analysis for iced airfoils can be a labor-intensive task. The software toolkit SmaggIce 2D is being developed to help streamline the CFD process and provide the unique features needed for icing. When complete, it will include a combination of partially automated and fully interactive tools for all aspects of the tasks leading up to the flow analysis: geometry preparation, domain decomposition, block boundary discretization. gridding, and linking with a flow solver. It also includes tools to perform ice shape characterization, an important aid in determining the relationship between ice characteristics and their effects on aerodynamic performance. Completed tools, work-in-progress, and planned features of the software toolkit are presented here.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002STIN...0306686V
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Ice Formation;
- Software Development Tools;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Aerodynamic Characteristics;
- Airfoils;
- Boundaries;
- Decomposition;
- Flow Geometry;
- Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics