Computational fluid mechanics and its impact on the aircraft aerodynamicist
Abstract
The capabilities of current theoretical methods for predicting the more important types of aerodynamic flow are summarized. Their shortcomings as well as successes are indicated and the likelihood of their development and acceptance as routine, mainstream tools of the aircraft aerodynamicist is discussed. Navier-Stokes solutions, boundary layer solutions, and inviscid models are treated critically.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981STIN...8212409H
- Keywords:
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- Aerodynamic Configurations;
- Aerodynamics;
- Aircraft Design;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Flow Equations;
- Approximation;
- Boundary Layer Equations;
- Inviscid Flow;
- Mathematical Models;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Wind Tunnel Tests;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer