28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-2.11ST

DEVELOPMENT OF FAST UNSTRUCTURED CFD CODE “FASTAR”

A. Hashimoto, K. Murakami, T. Aoyama, K. Ishiko, M. Hishida*, M. Sakashita**, P. Lahur***
JAXA, Japan; *Ryoyu Systems Co., Ltd., Japan; **Daiko Denshi Tsushin, Ltd., Japan; ***Research Center of Computational Mechanics, Inc., Japan

Keywords: unstructured cfd, fastar

Based on the investigation, we have developed a fast unstructured CFD code “FaSTAR”. The accuracy of drag prediction with FaSTAR is validated by the DPW4 benchmark problem. The effort of program tuning and convergence acceleration with Multigrid and GMRES is shown.

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