24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-2.3.3

STRUCTURED MULTIBLOCK SIMULATIONS OF GENERAL LAUNCHER FLOWS INCLUDING THE EFFECT OF FINS

E. Basso, J. A. de Oliveira Neto, J. L. F. Azevedo
Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço, CTA/IAE/ASE-N, Brazil; *Universidade Braz Cubas, Brazil

Keywords: Structured Multiblock Grids, Launch Vehicles, CFD

Aerodynamic flow simulations over a typical sounding rocket are presented. This work is inserted in the effort of developing the computational tools necessary to simulate aerodynamics flows over the configurations of the interest for Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço of Centro Técnico Aeroespacial.

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