Committee Chair

Karman, Steve L., Jr.

Committee Member

Swafford, Timothy W.; Hyams, Daniel G.

Department

Dept. of Computational Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This study examines the improvement of near-field sonic boom prediction of an inviscid supersonic configuration using two grid generation refinement procedures. The first method uses P_HUGG, a parallel hierarchical Cartesian mesh generation algorithm to generate a volume mesh, with the solution-based mesh adaptation capability of P_HUGG being exploited. The mesh quality was improved using P_OPT, a parallel optimization-based mesh-smoothing program. In the second method, the commercially-available software POINTWISE™ is used for volume mesh generation. Then, P_REFINE, a parallel subdivision refinement code, is used t o adaptively refine the mesh. The effectiveness of capturing far field shocks was examined using TENASI, an unstructured flow solver developed at the SimCenter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The grids are adapted to high pressure gradient using SPACING, a program that computes the desired spacing at all points in the mesh. Results from both methods are compared with wind-tunnel based experimental data.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

12-2009

Subject

Computer programs

Discipline

Computational Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

ix, 46 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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