Dynamic modeling of turbulent shedding effect on the 30-meter primary mirror of GSMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 553-563

  Xu, Guanpeng ^a   Whorton, Mark ^a,b   Tao, Yong X ^c   Cho, Myung ^d  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d AURA New Initiatives Office   (United States)

Author keywords

GSMT; K turbulence model; Navier Stokes equations; PIV; Primary mirror; Roe's scheme; Unsteady; Water tunnel; Wind buffeting; Wind loading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MIRRORS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

TURBULENT SHEDDING EFFECTS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037649977     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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