Summary of data from the fifth computational fluid dynamics drag prediction workshop

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1194-1213

  Levy, David W ^a   Laflin, Kelly R ^a   Tinoco, Edward N ^b   Vassberg, John C ^b   Mani, Mori ^b   Rider, Ben ^b   Rumsey, Christopher L ^c   Wahls, Richard A ^c   Morrison, Joseph H ^c   Brodersen, Olaf P ^d   Crippa, Simone ^d   Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^e   Murayama, Mitsuhiro ^f  

^a CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FORECASTING; NASA; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE MODELS; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

MODEL BENCHMARKING; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SEPARATION BUBBLE; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; WING-BODY CONFIGURATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84921998098     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.C032389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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