Comparison of computational fluid dynamics approaches for simulating weapons bay flow

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1019-1024

  Nichols, R H ^a,c   Westmoreland, Shawn ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Digital Fusion Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULER EQUATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE;

BAY FLOW SIMULATIONS; SHEAR LAYER; TRANSPORT TURBULENCE MODEL; WEAPONS BAY FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 34547179893     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.23067     Document Type: Article

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