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I am an Aerospace Engineer with specialties in flutter, fluid structure interactions, and the use of CFD in a production environment. My dissertation shows how to improve the state-of-the-art unsteady CFD performance by 2 orders of magnitude. I am an engineer, a pilot, a marksman, a husband, and a dad.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Structure and Interpretation of Surface Flows

J Green 1969

 In the wind tunnel and production CFD environments, visualization of the fully 3D flow is a luxury rarely granted. For wind tunnels, even a 2D surface flow visualization is an expensive, messy, and incomplete tool. Learning to interpret and mentally visualize the flow structure is a critical skill.

So, in the spirit of a great book, SICP, the following documents from ONERA provide a wonderful explanation of the Structure and Interpretation of Surface Flows. After reading through these, you should be able to mentally visualize the 3D flow corresponding to the above image.

Document (5 parts):
1a
1b
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4

 

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