Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle
P.G. Buning, I.T. Chiu, F.W. Martin, Jr., R.L. Meakin, S.
Obayashi, Y.M. Rizk, J.L. Steger, and M. Yarrow, 1989
The subject of the simulation is the Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle
(SSLV). This particular aeronautical simulation has the space shuttle
in launch configuration, including the external tank, shuttle rocket
boosters and some interconnection hardware. Only one half of the
geometry (and surrounding flow field) is represented, as the data is
assumed to be symmetric about the central plane. The orbiter tail is
missing from this geometric description.
References
P.G. Buning, I.T. Chiu, F.W. Martin, Jr., R.L. Meakin, S. Obayashi,
Y.M. Rizk, J.L. Steger, and M. Yarrow, "Flowfield Simulation of the
Space Shuttle Vehicle in Ascent," Fourth International Conference on
Supercomputing, Vol II, Supercomputer Applications, Kartashev &
Kartashev, eds., 1989, pp. 20-28.
F.W. Martin, Jr. and J.P. Slotnick, ``Flow Computations for the Space
Shuttle in Ascent Mode Using Thin-Layer Navier-Stokes Equations,''
Applied Computational Aerodynamics, Progress in Astronautics and
Aeronautics, Vol. 125, P.A. Henne, ed., American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 863-886.
Properties
- discipline: fluids
- steady
- 3D
- viscous
- data-format: PLOT3D, multiple-zone, iblank, binary
- mach: 1.250
- alpha: -5.10 deg
- Re: 8 e+06
Software
Unknown.
Visualization
The surface geometry can be
found by extracting gridplanes for which the velocity is <0,0,0> over
the whole gridplane. as this is flow over a complex body, the flow is very complicated.
Data Format
The data are in plot3d, multiple-zone, iblank, binary.
All floating point data are in 32-bit IEEE format, SGI endian.
There are nine grid blocks with dimensions:
