24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-2.6.2

DEVELOPMENT OF A 3-D UNSTRUCTURED GRID SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR TURBULENT AEROSPACE FLOWS

E. D. V. Bigarilla, F. C. Moreira*, J. L. E. Azevedeo*
Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, CTA, Sao Jose dos Campos,SP, Brazil; *Instituto de Aeronautica e Espaco, CTA, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Keywords: CFD, Unstructured grids, Turbulent flows, Aerospace applications

The development of numerical simulation capabilities that can handle actual launch vehicle configurations are reported. At this point along the development process, good results have been achieved with adaptive, unstructured grid, finite volume techniques for 3-D, inviscid and turbulent viscous flows over sounding rockets and satellite launcher configurations.

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