AOFA- THREE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSONIC VISCOUS FLOW

( NASA Ames Research Center )

This program, which is called 'AOFA', determines the complete viscous

and inviscid flow around a body of revolution at a given angle of attack
and traveling at supersonic speeds. The viscous calculations from this
program agree with experimental values for surface and pitot pressures
and with surface heating rates. At high speeds, lee-side flows are
important because the local heating is difficult to correlate and
because the shed vortices can interact with vehicle components such as
a canopy or a vertical tail. This program should find application in
the design analysis of any high speed vehicle.

Lee-side flows are difficult to calculate because thin-boundary-layer

theory is not applicable and the concept of matching inviscid and
viscous flow is questionable. This program uses the parabolic
approximation to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and solves
for the complete inviscid and viscous regions of flow, including the
pressure. The parabolic approximation results from the assumption that
the stress derivatives in the streamwise direction are small in
comparison with derivatives in the normal and circumferential
directions. This assumption permits the equation to be solved by an
implicit finite difference marching technique which proceeds downstream
from the initial data point, provided the inviscid portion of flow is
supersonic. The viscous cross-flow separation is also determined as part
of the solution. To use this method it is necessary to first determine
an initial data point in a region where the inviscid portion of the
flow is supersonic.

Input to this program consists of two parts. Problem description is

conveyed to the program by namelist input. Initial data is acquired
by the program as formatted data. Because of the large amount of run
time this program can consume the program includes a restart capability.
Output is in printed format and magnetic tape for further processing.

This program is written in FORTRAN IV and has been implemented on a CDC

7600 with a central memory requirement of approximately 35K (octal) of
60 bit words.

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LANGUAGE: FORTRAN IV

MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: CDC 7000 SERIES

PROGRAM SIZE: APPROXIMATELY 2,175 SOURCE STATEMENTS

DISTRIBUTION MEDIA: 9 Track 1600 BPI CDC NOS Internal Format Magnetic Tape

PROGRAM NUMBER: ARC-11087

DOMESTIC - DOCUMENTATION PRICE: $15.00 PROGRAM PRICE: $500.00

INTERNATIONAL - DOCUMENTATION PRICE: $30.00 PROGRAM PRICE: $1000.00