APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMICS
TEXT/NOTES
W. H. Mason, mason@aoe.vt.edu
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
An electronic version of the class notes for AOE 4114, Applied Computational Aerodynamics. Portions are also
used for AOE 4984, Configuration Aerodynamics. Comments are welcome, and in fact encouraged.
This is a work in progress (for over 6 years!). Starting in 1997, the material is being made available electronically
using a hybrid html/acrobat approach. It appears most practical to provide a top page in html, while allowing
students to download individual sections as Adobe Acrobat files. The emphasis is on subject mater, and not the
multimedia framework. I have not yet been able to devote the time required to produce a modern electronic
document. Also, some equations and figures may not print perfectly. Much of the material was created before the
current methods and standards existed. The entire outline is provided, although not all sections are available for
download yet. In some cases copyright permission has not been obtained for figures, and thus, some figures are
not yet available. Chapters and Appendices will be added as they are available.
The documents are provided in an even/odd page format so they can be copied to both sides of the paper in the
hardcopy version. This allows them to fit in a notebook.
Some codes are available in FORTRAN. They have very crude user interfaces, the manuals even refer to card
input! In most cases, much more modern versions are available.
� 1992,1995 by W.H. Mason
Preface (html)
Volume 1: Foundations and Classical Pre-CFD Methods
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Detailed Table of Contents
1. Introduction (pdf)
2. Getting Ready for Computational Aerodynamics: Fluid Mechanics Foundations (pdf)
3. Computers, Codes, and Engineering (pdf)
4. Incompressible Potential Flow Using Panel Methods (pdf) (minus a few copyrighted figures)
5. Drag: An Introduction (pdf) (minus a few figures)
6. Aerodynamics of 3D Lifting Surfaces through Vortex Lattice Methods (248k pdf, Mar 11, 1998)
(minus a few copyrighted figures)
7. Applications to Configuration Aerodynamics
Appendices
o A. Geometry for Aerodynamicists (pdf)
A library of airfoils for use with the codes is available, either as a Zip file or as a Stuffit file. See
Appendix A for the airfoil names associated with each filename.
o
o
B. Sources of Experimental Data for Code Validation (pdf)
C. Preparation of Written Material (pdf)
PDF créé avec la version d'essai pdfFactory www.gs2i.fr/fineprint/pdffactory.htm
o
o
o
D. Pre-CFD Computational Aerodynamics Programs (html)
E. Utility Codes (html)
F. Code and Electronic Information Sources (html)
Volume 2 Applied Computational Fluid Mechanics
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Detailed Table of Contents
8. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (162k pdf file, Mar. 17, 1998)
9. Geometry and Grids: Major Considerations in Using CA
10. Viscous Flows in Aerodynamics
11. Transonic Aerodynamics: Methods and Applications
12. Supersonic and Hypersonic Aerodynamics
13. CFD: Current Methods, Terminology and Details Required for Use
14. Using Computational Aerodynamics: Review and Reinforcement
Appendices
o G. Computational Aerodynamics Programs (html)
o H. Utility Codes (html)
These notes were produced exclusively with Macintosh technology. They were written on Macintosh computers.
Word processing was done with FullWrite Professional and WriteNow. Sketches and drawings were done with
Canvas. Equations were composed using MathType. Plots and Graphs were made using Kaleidagraph.
Computing for examples was carried out using Language Systems FORTRAN running in the Apple Macintosh
MPW shell.
PDF créé avec la version d'essai pdfFactory www.gs2i.fr/fineprint/pdffactory.htm