24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-2.4.2 (St.)

A NEW CALCULATION METHOD OF COMPRESSIBLE FLOW

H. Nakamura, K. Manabe, M. Nishio
Fukuyama University, Japan

Keywords: supersonic flow, hypersonic flow, finite element method, MESUR capsule, and flowfield stabilization time

A new calculation method of supersonic/hypersonic flows based on the finite element method (FEM) has been developed. In this algorithm, the pressure term of Navier- Stokes equations was included in the flux vector expressing by the stress tensor. By doing this scheme, the pressure term could be expressed as a non-differential form.

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