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Development and Applications of 3D Cartesian CFD Technology

The document discusses the development and applications of 3D Cartesian CFD technology. It describes research into automated Cartesian grid generation methods to enable fully automatic grid generation and flow solving for complex aircraft geometries. The paper also demonstrates successful applications of the Cartesian CFD technology to transonic transport aircraft and supersonic transports.

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Development and Applications of 3D Cartesian CFD Technology

The document discusses the development and applications of 3D Cartesian CFD technology. It describes research into automated Cartesian grid generation methods to enable fully automatic grid generation and flow solving for complex aircraft geometries. The paper also demonstrates successful applications of the Cartesian CFD technology to transonic transport aircraft and supersonic transports.

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NASA Lewis Surface Modeling and Grid Generation Workshop

Development and Applications of 3D Cartesian CFD Technology

John E. Melton Marsha J. Berger

NASA Ames Research Center Courant Institute

Moffett Field, CA New York, NY

The urgent need for dramatic reductions in aircraft design cycle time is focusing scrutiny upon

all aspects of CFD. These reductions will most likely come not from increased reliance upon user-

interactive (and therefore time-expensive) methods, but instead from methods that can be fully

automated and incorporated into "black box" solutions. In comparison with tetrahedral methods,

three-dimensional Cartesian grid approaches are in relative infancy, but initial experiences with

automated Cartesian techniques are quite promising. Our research is targeted at furthering the

development of Cartesian methods so that they can become key elements of a completely automatic

grid generation/flow solution procedure applicable to the Euler analysis of complex aircraft

geometries.

Cartesian approaches are of course beset with their own unique and interesting difficulties.

Removal of the body-fitted grid constraint allows the Cartesian hexahedra used to discretize the flow

field to intersect the surface in an arbitrary manner. Successful research into the development of

robust procedures for the efficient creation and distribution of the hexahedra has produced an

automatic, "hands-off' procedure for Cartesian grid generation. Additional efficiency gains have

resulted from the adoption of a component-based approach to surface modeling. This approach

streamlines the labor-intensive CAD/CAM process of creating the input surface discretizations and

eliminates the need to regenerate new surface grids containing updated intersection information when

individual components are translated or rotated. New intersections between components are

automatically recognized and captured by the grid generation procedures, significantly improving the

usefulness of the code in a design effort. This capability greatly expedites the analysis of

complicated three-dimensional multi-body geometries, such as multi-component high lift systems or

cotffigurations involvia_g arbitrary control surface deflections. Cunent research is focusing-upon the

modeling of extremely thin components. The organization and implementation of the grid generation
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algorithms will be described in the proceedings paper. The accurate implementation of the surface

boundary conditions is crucial to the success of any flow field simulation procedure. Research into

tiffs challenging area has produced improved boundary conditions routines with increased accuracy.

The effects of these routines will also be presented in the proceedings paper.

Demomtrations of some successful three-dimensional applications of the resultant Cartesian

CFD technology are illustrated in figures I and 2. All of the applications were performed on the

CRAY C-90 at the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation facility at Ames. In figure I a, a portion of

the Cartesian grid for an advanced transonic transport is displayed along with some selected planes

of the flow field painted by the pressure distribution. A curvatttre-sensitive grid refinement

algorithm was used to initially refine the flow field grid about the nacelles and pylons, at the fuselage

nose, and around the leading and trailing edges of the wing. Additional automatic refinements were

performed to increase the resolution of shocks and large gradient regions in the flow field. Figure lb

shows the surface pressure distribution for a supersonic civil transport aircraft. In figure 2, selected

comparisons of the supersonic lift, drag, and pitching moment characteristics for the supersonic

transport are compared with wind tunnel data. Additional information about these computations will

be detailed in the proceedings paper.

Correspondence should be sent to:

John Melton

M/S 227-6

NASA Ames Research Center

Moffett Field, CA 94035

(415) 604 - 1461

FAX: (415) 604 - 4357


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