This thesis present the state-of-the-art of the transition prediction numerical chain which has been developed at Dassault Aviation in the RANS solver AETHER. Two strategies for transition location estimations exist. First, AETHER is coupled with the ONERA boundary layer code 3C3D. Second, the transition location is computed by using directly the RANS velocity profiles. Both methods were preliminarily tested in subsonic and transonic. The issues of the influence of the numerical solvers, transition onset criteria and coupling process are studied. The influence of higher order numerical method, are also considered.
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