Transonic Navier-Stokes solutions for a fighter-like configuration
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The Transonic Navier-Stokes wing code is extended to a 16-zone TNS wing-fuselage code and used to solve the transonic viscous flow over a modified F-16A. The computer code, called Transonic Navier-Stokes Wing/Fuselage uses a zonal approach to solve the three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. With the zonal implementation, clustering suitable for viscous calculations is achieved on all solid surfaces. The transonic case has flow conditions of free-stream M = 0.9, alpha = 4.12 deg, and a Reynolds number based on root chord of 4.5 million. This case required about 3,000 iterations to reduce the L2-norm of the residual by three orders, which takes about 15 hr of cpu time on the Cray X-MP/48 processor. Pressure distributions, as well as separaton patterns, compare favorably with experiment for this transonic case.