NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF 3-D FULL POTENTIAL SUPERSONIC FLOW USING BOUNDARY CONFORMING GRIDS

An algorithm for solving 3-D supersonic potential equation is developed. Based on this algorithm, a computer program capable of being run on small computers, and lherefore used in design offices, is produced. Using algebraicly generated boundary conforming grids, a 3-D flow problem is casted into a set of successive 2-D problems in the marching direction which is solved implicitly. Various results of the present code, including conical and nonconical flows, are presented. The agreement of the results with those of other codes, as well as experimental results, is noted