Numerical uncertainties in transonic flow calculations for aerofoils with blunt trailing edges

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-373

  Lotz, Robert D ^a   Thompson, Brian E ^a   Konings, Christopher A ^a   Davoudzadeh, Farhad ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Numerical uncertainty; Transonic airfoils

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALCULATIONS; DRAG; LIFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; TRANSONIC FLOW; TURBULENCE;

AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS; BLUNT TRAILING EDGE; GRID CONVERGENCE INDEX; LIFT TO DRAG RATIO; LINEARIZED BLOCK IMPLICIT SOLUTION; NUMERICAL UNCERTAINTIES; SHOCK LOCATION; SURFACE PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; TURBULENCE TRANSITION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AEROFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031080367     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19970228)24:4<355::AID-FLD498>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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