24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-2.4.4

A TIME ACCURATE ZONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR SOLVING COMPRESSIBLE AND INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS

J. Su
Aerodynamics Laboratory, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada

Keywords: finite element method, zonal method, viscous flow, aerodynamics

A time accurate viscous-inviscid zonal method is presented for simulating compressible and incompressible external aerodynamic viscous flows. The division of the flow field into inviscid and viscous zones is warranted by the physical natures of the problems while making full use of them is the motivation of the present method.

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