Thirty years of development and application of CFD at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1115-1151

  Johnson, Forrester T ^a   Tinoco, Edward N ^a   Yu, N Jong ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; WIND TUNNELS;

BOEING (CO); FLIGHT TESTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 23944491853     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2004.06.005     Document Type: Review

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