CFD assessment of aerodynamic degradation of a subsonic transport due to airframe damage

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Frink, Neal T ^a   Pirzadeh, Shahyar Z ^a   Atkins, Harold L ^a   Viken, Sally A ^a   Morrison, Joseph H ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DATA; AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL DATA; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIRECTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLIGHT SIMULATION MODELS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGH FIDELITY; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW SOLVER; PILOT TRAINING; ROLLING MOMENTS; STATIC STABILITY; SUBSONIC AIRCRAFT; TRANSPORT MODELS; VERTICAL TAIL;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT MODELS; AIRFRAMES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DEGRADATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FLOW SIMULATION; NASA; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SLOPE STABILITY; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

AERODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EID: 78649831505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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