We review and extend to the compressible regime an earlier parallelization of an implicit incompressible unstructured Euler code [9], and soIve for ffow over an M6 wing in subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes. While the parallelization philosophy of the compressible case is identical to the incompressible, we focus here on the nonlinear and linear convergence rates, which vary in dMerent...

Multi-disciplinary optimisation (MDO) of the outboard engine pylon of a large transonic transport aircraft is reported in this paper. The disciplines involved were structure and aerodynamics, although this paper focuses on the aerodynamic aspect. A two-level strategy was followed to solve this problem: three parameters are identified as playing a coupling role between disciplines and are addres...

An unstructured-grid, Navier-Stokes flow solver is used to compute the transonic flow development over the SKF 1.1 supercritical aerofoil section, in clean configuration and equipped with either a trailing-edge flap or a leading-edge slat. A full differential Reynolds-stress turbulence model is employed, with wall-function near-wall boundary conditions, for the computations. Agreement between p...

An accretion flow is necessarily transonic around a black hole. However, around a neutron star it may or may not be transonic, depending on the inner disk boundary conditions influenced by the neutron star. I will discuss various transonic behavior of the disk fluid in general relativistic (or pseudo general relativistic) framework. I will address that there are four types of sonic/critical poi...

Eshelby has shown that a glide dislocation can move without radiation of energy at  2 p of the shear wave speed. It is also known that the same velocity plays a special role in shear crack propagation. This result has not received wide attention in the past due to lack of experiments and numerical simulations of transonic defects. Recent experiments on transonic shear fracture and molecular ...

In order to estimate Reynolds number effects on a transonic transport aircraft CFD calculations have been performed. The CFD calculations have been done solving the RANS equations on an unstructured grid for varying Reynolds number at transonic conditions. Low Reynolds number data have been extrapolated to a higher Reynolds number condition with different scaling methodologies in order to evalu...

Computational aerodynamics, which complement more expensive empirical approaches, are critical for developing aerospace vehicles. During the past three decades, computational aerodynamics capability has improved remarkably, following advances in computer hardware and algorithm development. However, most of the fundamental computational capability realised in recent applications is derived from ...

S U M M A R Y The transonic flow near the throat of a converging-diverging nozzle of a gas with infinite electrical conductivity is considered. The magnetic field B is everywhere aligned with the velocity q so that the equations describing the flow are reducible to those of ordinary gasdynamics. Thus, it is possible to utilize the transonic similarity solution of Tomotika and Tamada [3] to stud...

Adaptive mesh refinement is one of the most important tools in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for solving complex engineering design problems. The paper investigates two practical transonic aerofoil design optimization problems using a genetic algorithm coupled with an Euler aerodynamic analysis tool. The first problem consists in the minimization of transonic drag whereas the second is a r...