27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-2.11ST1

STORE SEPARATION LESSONS LEARNED DURING THE LAST 30 YEARS

A. Cenko
NAVAIR, USA

Keywords: cfd, wind tunnel, flight test

There are three approaches that have been used for ensuring safe store separation: Wind Tunnel Testing, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses and Flight Testing. This paper describes how the use of CFD for flight clearance has evolved over the past thirty years.

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