A high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation of a next generation heavy lift space vehicle during launch is presented. The purpose of the simulation is to evaluate the acoustic overpressures during ignition to permit re-design of the launch site to safely handle heavy lift vehicles. The simulation is performed using the Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) code, an immersed boundary block-structured Cartesian adaptive mesh refinement based solver. A verification and validation study of LAVA in the launch environment context is also performed, comparing to flight data and previous simulations of a Space Shuttle launch.


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    Title :

    Adaptive Immersed Boundary Simulations for the Launch Environment


    Contributors:
    M. F. Barad (author) / J. A. Housman (author) / C. C. Kiris (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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