A multi-code python-based infrastructure for overset CFD with adaptive cartesian grids

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wissink, Andrew M ^a   Sitaraman, Jayanarayanan ^b   Sankaran, Venkateswaran ^c   Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^d   Pulliam, Thomas H ^e  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

ADAPTIVE CARTESIAN GRID; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; EXTERNAL AERODYNAMICS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; TIME-INTEGRATION SCHEME; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77952347365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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