Comparison of numerical flow field predictions for army airdrop systems

15th Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 110-120

  Sahu, Jubaraj ^a   Edge, Harris ^a   Heavey, Karen ^a   Stein, Keith ^b   Benney, Richard ^b   Chakravarthy, Sukumar ^c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b US Army Soldier Systems Command RD and E Center   (United States)

^c Metacomp Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); FLOW FIELDS; FORECASTING; PARACHUTES; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; TWO PHASE FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

AIRDROP SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SEMI-DISCRETE FINITE ELEMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84982318610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-1715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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