An arbitrarily high-order, unstructured, free-wake panel solver
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Moore, John Pease, IV
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Jaime Peraire.
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A high-order panel code capable of solving the potential flow equation about arbitrary curved geometries is presented. A new method for integrating curved, high-order panels using adaptive Gaussian quadrature is detailed. Furthermore, automated wake handling is addressed and a method to robustly solve for the steady-state free-wake rollup is proposed. Finally, a Fast Multipole Method with a complexity that scales as O(N) is also presented so that large problems can be handled using only a linear mesh. Results are presented to demonstrate high order accuracy and agreement with other inviscid solvers for a variety of test cases.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
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2013Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticsPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Aeronautics and Astronautics.