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Housman, Jeffrey

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Jet Noise Prediction for Low Boom Aircraft

Enabling jet acoustics simulations on full scale flight vehicles utilizing zonal hybrid RANS/LES within the Launch Ascent and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) Solver. Hybrid RANS/LES technology will assist in the development for innovative concepts for integrated supersonic propulsion systems. Modeling and simulation practices must be scrutinized further and new methods need to be developed.

Stich, Gerrit

High-Resolution Launch Environment Simulations

After many years of harsh rocket launches, the Main Flame Deflector (MFD) at Kennedy Space Center has been upgraded in anticipation of flights of NASA’s next generation Space Launch System. The new MFD has a much easier to maintain shingled steel surface.

Launch

High Fidelity Simulations for Unsteady Flow Through the Orbiter LH2 Feedline Flowliner

High fidelity computations were carried out to analyze the orbiter M2 feedline flowliner. Various computational models were used to characterize the unsteady flow features in the turbopump, including the orbiter Low-Pressure-Fuel-Turbopump (LPFTP) inducer, the orbiter manifold and a test article used to represent the manifold. Unsteady flow originating from the orbiter LPFTP inducer is one of the major contributors to the high frequency cyclic loading that results in high cycle fatigue damage to the gimbal flowliners just upstream of the LPFTP. The flow fields for the orbiter manifold and representative test article are computed and analyzed for similarities and differences. An incompressible Navier-Stokes flow solver INS3D, based on the artificial compressibility method, was used to compute the flow of liquid hydrogen in each test article.

Kiris, Cetin C.

Comparison of Artificial Compressibility Methods

Various artificial compressibility methods for calculating the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are compared. Each method is described and numerical solutions to test problems are conducted. A comparison based on convergence behavior, accuracy, and robustness is given.

Kiris, Cetin

Comparison of Artificial Compressibility Methods

Various artificial compressibility methods for calculating three-dimensional, steady and unsteady, laminar and turbulent, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are compared in this work. Each method is described in detail along with appropriate physical and numerical boundary conditions. Analysis of well-posedness and numerical solutions to test problems for each method are provided. A comparison based on convergence behavior, accuracy, stability and robustness is used to establish the relative positive and negative characteristics of each method.

Kiris, Cetin