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Editorial

CFD activities at NASA Ames Research Center Review of selected topics

During the time when a few researchers started writing historical review papers on four selected topics related to Computational
Fluid Dynamics development at NASA Ames Research Center, we
heard the sad news of Bob Warmings passing. We dedicate this
collection of four articles to Bob as a small token of our appreciation for his enormous contributions to CFD during the many years
he worked at NASA Ames.
This collection consists of four summary papers written by his
friends and colleagues at Ames. These papers reect only small
subset of the impacts Bob has made on the Ames CFD community
over the years. Most importantly, these papers illustrate how his
contributions are still relevant and being used in various aerospace
projects at Ames, other NASA centers, and the aerospace industry.
The rst paper in the series (authored by Terry Holst) is on transonic ow potential methods, covering the time period from the
late 1970s to the present. The next paper (by Tom Pulliam) focuses
on the development of implicit methods at Ames the BeamWarming scheme, which Bob co-developed. The Beam-Warming
scheme was instrumental in enabling NavierStokes computations
and made a signicant early impact on Ames CFD solver development. This paper is followed by a review (by William Chan) that
discusses overset grid technology development, which has made

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far-reaching impacts on structured grid generation in the Ames

and international CFD communities. The nal paper in the series
(by Dochan Kwak and Cetin Kiris), covers incompressible ow simulation, and includes a discussion on how the Beam-Warming
scheme was used in the authors original version of the incompressible NavierStokes solver.
Over three-and-a-half decades, Bob produced seminal papers
contributing to CFD at Ames (an extensive summary on Bobs
accomplishments, achieved together with his long-time colleague
Richard Beam, was published in Computers and Fluids, vol. 30,
2001). We are very fortunate to have had opportunities to work
closely with such a truly dedicated researcher as Bob Warming.
He will be greatly missed.
Dochan Kwak
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division,
NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Tel.: +1 650 604 6743
E-mail address: Dochan.Kwak@nasa.gov
Available online 14 October 2008