Transonic drag prediction using an unstructured multigrid solver

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 887-893

  Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^a,c,d   Levy, David W ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY   (United States)

^c ICASE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DRAG; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TRANSONIC FLOW; WINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MULTIGRID SOLVERS; TRANSONIC DRAG PREDICTION; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 24144439129     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.8233     Document Type: Article

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