Current grid-generation strategies and future requirements in hypersonic vehicle design, analysis and testing

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 705-735

  Papadopoulos, Periklis ^a   Venkatapathy, Ethiraj ^a   Prabhu, Dinesh ^a   Loomis, Mark P ^b   Olynick, Dave ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACECRAFT;

EXPERIMENTAL CREW RETURN VEHICLE; GRID GENERATION METHOD; GRID REFINEMENT STRATEGY; HYPERSONIC VEHICLE; MATERIAL MAPPING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYPERSONIC FLOW; VEHICLE;

EID: 0033451188     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0307-904X(99)00007-4     Document Type: Article

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