Navier-stokes simulation of the space shuttle launch vehicle flight transonic flowfield using a large scale chimera grid system

12th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 456-470

  Slotnick, J P ^a   Kandula, M ^a   Buning, P G ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; AUTOMOBILE BODIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW SIMULATION; LAUNCH VEHICLES; LIQUEFIED GASES; MESH GENERATION; NASA; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ORBITS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPACE SHUTTLES; TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FLIGHT REYNOLDS NUMBERS; FREESTREAM MACH NUMBER; GEOMETRIC DEFINITION; NAVIER STOKES SIMULATION; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINES; SURFACE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33745626510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1994-1860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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