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One CFD calculation to end point flight testing: (Has CFD finally replaced the wind tunnel?)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

A. Cenko
A. Cenko*
Affiliation:
Naval Air System Command, Patuxent River, MD, USA
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Abstract

Any time a new aircraft is introduced into service, or an old aircraft undergoes substantial modifications or needs to be certified to carry and employ new stores, the store separation engineer is faced with a decision about how much effort will be required to provide an airworthiness certification for the aircraft and stores. Generally, there are three approaches that have been used: wind-tunnel testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses and flight testing. During the past twenty years there have been considerable advances in all three areas. In particular, there has been a considerable improvement in the speed and validity of CFD results for store separation. The Holy Grail of CFD has long been the reduction/replacement of wind-tunnel testing. This would mean in store separation the ability to go from a CFD calculation to flight testing at the end point. The paper will describe how this was achieved for the F/A-18C/Litening pod program.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 110 , Issue 1109 , July 2006 , pp. 439 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2006 

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