User's Guide for an Interactive Personal Computer Interface for the 1998 Aeroprediction Code (AP98)

摘要

This report describes interactive, user friendly, pre-processing and post-processing personal computer (P.C.) modules designed to operate with the latest version of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Aeroprediction Code (AP98). As part of the preprocessing input module, geometry inputs are automated by giving the user many options. By using this new software, a set of aerodynamic coefficients can be obtained on most weapon configurations in less than 15 minutes from time of initial setup to computer outputs, compared to 2-4 hours for the AP98 computer mainframe version, While the computer cost savings are modest (the AP98 executes on a large computer in less than a second), the manpower savings and productivity enhancements can be significant. Various plots of the aerodynamic coefficients are available to the user and are plotted automatically by the post-processing module. Data output is also made available to the user in the form of standard Aeroprediction output files as well as tabulated data. The User's Guide is designed to aid users of the AP98 by correlating AP98 P.C. Interface Data Inputs and the corresponding source code variable names.