A perspective on a quarter century of CFD research
Abstract
The times and some of the characters in CFD research over the past 25 yrs are discussed from a personal point of view. Work done on the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations prior to 1970 and studies of the transonic small disturbance equation, the full potential equation, the Euler equations, the NS equations, turbulence modeling, and computational grids during the 1970s is examined. Research during the 1980s on the Euler and NS equations, the full potential equation, hypersonic reacting flow, and unstructured grids is reviewed along with 1990s research on computational combustion, the use of workstations, and gridless CFD is addressed. The author's expectations for future work on computational grids, computer architecture, algorithms, and turbulence are briefly given.
- Publication:
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AIAA 11th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993cfd..conf....1M
- Keywords:
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- Compressible Flow;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Finite Volume Method;
- General Overviews;
- Research And Development;
- Aerodynamics;
- Ibm Computers;
- Technological Forecasting;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer