21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-2.10.4

ACFD APPLICATIONS TO STORE SEPARATION

Cenko A., Lutton M.*
Naval Air Warfare Center, MD, USA; *Air Force Seek Eagle Office, Eglin AFB, USA

Keywords: applied computational fluid dynamics, store separation

ACFD (Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics) is a tri-service project which has the purpose of verifying Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for use by the aircraft-store certification organizations. The project is part of the Weapons Modification and Simulation Capability (WMASC) program, which is funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP). During the past several years, several CFD codes have been evaluated for their ability to predict store loads in aircraft flow fields at transonic speeds. The paper will present the latest results of these evaluations for store external carriage loads and cavity flow fields.

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