CFD Tutorial T. Ramesh Kumar & J.

Majdalani

AERODYNAMICS III
BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY
Tutorial 3 External compressible
flow over a space shuttle (3D)
Joseph C. (Joe) Majdalani, P.E., Ph.D.
Professor & Francis Chair
and
Tharikaa Ramesh Kumar (Lead), Langston
L. Williams
and Pongkrit Darakorn
Teaching Assistants
Department of Aerospace Engineering
AUBURN UNIVERSITY

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed, unless for course participation, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Joseph C. (Joe) Majdalani, P.E., Ph.D.

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Laminar Pipe Flow Problem

Definition

Consider the given symmetric space shuttle design and

visualize the compressible fluid flow over the space
shuttle using particle tracks animations and
streamlines.

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Laminar Pipe Flow Procedural

Steps

CFD Simulation

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Flow over a Space Shuttle Starting

Program

Desktop >> Create a New Folder >> Space Shuttle

Download the supporting files and extract them to the

folder
Open ANSYS Workbench. Start >> Workbench

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Creating the geometry

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Creating the geometry

File >> Import External Geometry file >> Select

halfmodel.stp
Base Plane >> Select ZX plane >> Generate
YZ plane >> New Sketch >> Look at
Go the sketching tab
Draw >> Rectangle
Dimensions >> 30x30
Extrude >> Select Sketch 1 >> 30 m
Create >> Boolean >> Subtract >> Select the bodies
appropriately >> Generate
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Meshing the Geometry

Mesh >> On Proximity and Curvature >> Generate

mesh
Close ANSYS Meshing
Workbench >> Right click >> Update

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Flow over space shuttle Boundary

Conditions

Boundary Conditions
Inlet >> Velocity Inlet >> 500 m/s
Symmetry and wall

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Solution Initialization

Solution Initialization
Standard Initialization
Compute from >> Inlet >> Initialize

Run Calculation
Number of Iterations >> 100
Click Calculate

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Data Storage

To save the data:

File >> Write >> Case & Data
A .cas file and a .dat file

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Post Processing

Creating a plane
Location >> Plane

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Sample Results

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Sample Result

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Sample Result

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Sample Results

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Reporting Results

Streamlines
Animation of Streamline

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Save Before Closing

File >> Save Project

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