22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-2.4.2

TOWARDS AN EFFICIENT ROBUST AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL SOLVER FOR SUPERSONIC VISCOUS FLOWS

T. J. Birch (1), D. K. Ludlow (2), N. Qin (2)
(1) DERA, Bedford, UK; (2) Cranfield University, UK

Keywords: cfd, pns, missile aerodynamic

Recent progress made towards the development of an efficient multizone parabolized Navier- Stokes solver for missile and projectile configurations is described. Results for three test cases are presented and compared with wind tunnel data to illustrate the predictive capabilities of the solver. The solver provides a rapid means of obtaining viscous flow solutions on configurations of practical interest, and the results obtained compare well with measured data.

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