24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-0.1: ICAS DANIEL & FLORENCE GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL LECTURE:

PROGRESS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF CFD IN AEROSPACE: OBSERVATIONS FROM 30 YEARS RESEARCH

K. Fujii
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Historical perspective of CFD in aerospace in last 30 years is firstly given. It is shown that there remain problems that are geometrically simple but difficult to simulate even though we see a lot of simulations over complex body configurations. The result indicates that CFD research is now in the “specific phase” and requires some innovation.

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