Prediction of the flow around the X-31 aircraft using two different CFD methods

28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schütte, Andreas ^a   Boelens, Okko J ^b,e   Loeser, Thomas ^c   Oehlke, Martin ^d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^c German Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW)   (Germany)

^d HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e Aerospace Vehicles Division   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; UNSTEADY FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

ACQUISITION PROCESS; NON-LINEAR AERODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PREDICTION METHODS; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; STABILITY AND CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WIND TUNNEL MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649495808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-4692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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