Initial Foray into the Productive Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics

摘要

A suite of Government-developed, productivity-oriented, Computational Fluid Dynamics software has been constructed for use in the aerodynamic design of missiles. This suite is based on a robust Eulerian solver, and it uses automated grid generation to drastically reduce the time required to set up flowfield computations. The software is described and then applied to two potential hypervelocity missile configurations: one using a bent nose for aerodynamic control and the other using traditional canards. Comparisons mad with wind tunnel data demonstrate the ability of the software suite to produce meaningful results for use by aerodynamic designers.