A simulation of the flow about the integrated space shuttle vehicle in ascent mode has been undertaken for various flight conditions using the Chimera composite grid discretization approach. Overset body-conforming grids were used to represent each geometric component, and an implicit approximately factored finite-difference procedure was used to solve the three-dimensional thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations. The computational results have been compared with both wind tunnel and flight test data. Although relatively good agreement is obtained with the experimental data, further refinement and evaluation of numerical error is under way.


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    Title :

    Numerical simulation of the integrated space shuttle vehicle in ascent


    Contributors:
    Buning, P. G. (author) / Chiu, I. T. (author) / Obayashi, S. (author) / Rizk, Y. M. (author) / Steger, J. L. (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference ; 1988 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States


    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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