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Panel methods: an introduction
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Erickson, Larry L. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | Panel methods are numerical schemes for solving (the Prandtl-Glauert equation) for linear, inviscid, irrotational flow about aircraft flying at subsonic or supersonic speeds. The tools at the panel-method user's disposal are (1) surface panels of source-doublet-vorticity distributions that can represent nearly arbitrary geometry, and (2) extremely versatile boundary condition capabilities that can frequently be used for creative modeling. Panel-method capabilities and limitations, basic concepts common to all panel-method codes, different choices that were made in the implementation of these concepts into working computer programs, and various modeling techniques involving boundary conditions, jump properties, and trailing wakes are discussed. An approach for extending the method to nonlinear transonic flow is also presented. Three appendices supplement the main test. In appendix 1, additional detail is provided on how the basic concepts are implemented into a specific computer program (PANAIR). In appendix 2, it is shown how to evaluate analytically the fundamental surface integral that arises in the expressions for influence-coefficients, and evaluate its jump property. In appendix 3, a simple example is used to illustrate the so-called finite part of the improper integrals. |
| File Size | 3176423 |
| Page Count | 68 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910009745 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9p31sk9c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Transonic Flow Subsonic Speed Panel Method Fluid Dynamics Supersonic Speed Integrals Wakes Inviscid Flow Nonlinearity Boundary Conditions Computer Programs Potential Flow Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |