Articles
Assessment of Sting Effect on X-31 Aircraft Model Using CFD (with Adam Jirásek), 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (2010)
The article describes the computational evaluation of the effect a belly mounted sting on the...
Improved Methodologies for Maneuver Design of Aircraft Stability and Control Simulations (with Adam Jirásek, Tiger L. Jeans, Mathew Martenson, and Keith Bergeron), 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (2010)
With many modern fighter aircraft experiencing unpredicted flight dynamics during flight tests, recent research has...
Lessons Learned from the Numerical Investigations on the VFE-2 Configuration (with Willy Fritz), Report: Understanding and Modeling Vortical Flows to Improve the Technology Readiness Level for Military Aircraft (2009)
The Second International Vortex Flow Experiment provided a variety of experimental data for a 65°...
Numerical Solutions for the CAWAPI Configuration on Unstructured Grids at USAFA, United States (with Scott A. Morton and David R. McDaniel), Report: Understanding and Modeling Vortical Flows to Improve the Technology Readiness Level for Military Aircraft (2009)
Numerical Solutions for the VFE-2 Configuration on Unstructured Grids at USAFA, United States (with Andreas Schϋtte), Report: Understanding and Modeling Vortical Flows to Improve the Technology Readiness Level for Military Aircraft (2009)
The numerical simulation of the flow for the VFE-2 configuration with rounded leading edges is...
Shock Effects on Delta Wing Vortex Breakdown (with Lucy A. Schiavetta, Okko J. Boelens, Simone Crippa, Willy Fritz, and Ken J. Badcock), Report: Understanding and Modeling Vortical Flows to Improve the Technology Readiness Level for Military Aircraft (2009)
It has been observed that delta wings placed in a transonic freestream can experience a...
Application of Volterra Functions to X-31 Aircraft Model Motion (with United States Air Force Academy), 27th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference (2009)
Recent advances towards an efficient computational method for accurately determining the stability and control characteristics...
Comparison of Overset Grid and Grid Deformation Techniques Applied to 2-Dimensional NACA Airfoils (with Charles M. Hoke, Robert K. Decker, David R. McDaniel, and Scott A. Morton), 19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics (2009)
This paper documents a comparison of overset grid and grid deformation schemes applied to flapped...
Decades of Innovation in Aircraft Design Education (with David W. Hall and Doral R. Sandlin), 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (2009)
Aircraft design has formed the foundation of the aeronautical engineering curriculum at Cal Poly since...
John McMasters’Contributions to Aircraft Design Education, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (2009)
John McMasters was intensely interested in two seemingly diverse pursuits: aircraft design and technical work...
Lower-Order Aerodynamic Loads Modeling of a Maneuvering Generic Fighter Using DDES Simulations (with Tiger L. Jeans, David R. McDaniel, and Keith Bergeron), 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (2009)
Unforeseen nonlinear aerodynamic behavior and/or fluid-structure interactions have affected the development of nearly every major...
Comparisons of Computational Fluid Dynamics Solutions of static and Manoeuvering Fighter Aircraft with Flight Test Data (with David R. McDaniel, K. Bergeron, Scott A. Morton, and J. P. Dean), Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2009)
As the capabilities of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model full aircraft configurations improve, and...
Aerodynamic Analysis of a Generic Fighter with a Chine Fuselage/Delta Wing Configuration Using Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation (with Tiger L. Jeans, David R. McDaniel, and William H. Mason), 26th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference (2008)
The Modular Transonic Vortex Investigation (MTVI) program at NASA Langley Research Center investigated the transonic...
An Undergraduate Computational Aerodynamics Curriculum (with Keith Bergeron, Capt Robert Decker, Maj Jacob Freeman, Capt Charlie Hoke, Jurgen Seidel, Scott A. Morton, and David M. Mcdaniel), DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference (2008)
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) as part of the Aeronautical Engineering major at the United States...
Numerical Prediction and Wind Tunnel Experiment for a Pitching Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (with Scott A. Morton and Stefan G. Siegel), Aerospace Science and Technology (2008)
The low-speed flowfield for a generic unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) is investigated both experimentally...
Detached-Eddy Simulation of the Vortical Flowfield about the VFE-2 DeltaWing (with Andreas Schϋtte), 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2008)
The numerical simulation of the flow around a 65° delta wing configuration with rounded leading...
High Resolution Simulation of Full Aircraft Control at Flight Reynolds Numbers (with Scott A. Morton, James R. Forsythe, David R. McDaniel, Keith Bergeron, Stefan Goertz, Jurgen Seidel, and Kyle D. Squires), DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference (2007)
This paper documents interim results of a three year project to develop a computational method...
Comparison of DES and URANS for Unsteady Vortical Flows over Delta Wings (with L. A. Shiavetta and K. J. Badcock), 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2007)
The unsteady behaviour of delta wing vortical flows is still a subject which is a...
F- 16XL Unsteady Simulations for the CAWAPI Facet of RTO Task Group AVT- 113 (with Scott A. Morton and David R. McDaniel), 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2007)
This work represents the USAF Academy portion of a culmination of three years of cooperative...
The Happy Accidents of Teaching Aircraft Design (with David W. Hall), 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2007)
The aircraft design curriculum at Cal Poly has grown and evolved over the past decades...
Experiences in Accurately Predicting Time-Dependent Flows (with Scott A. Morton and David R. McDaniel), Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2006)
As computational fluid dynamics matures, researchers attempt to perform numerical simulations on increasingly complex aerodynamic...
Experimental Evaluation of a High Fineness Ratio Body with Drag Brakes (with Corey J. Florendo, Thomas R. Yechout, Stefan Siegel, and Joseph Kealos), 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2006)
The Advanced Remote Ground Unattended Sensor uses drag brakes to control its terminal velocity during...
Experimental Evaluation of a High Fineness Ratio Body With Drag Brakes (with Corey J. Florendo, Thomas R. Yechout, Stefan G. Siegel, and Joseph Kealos), Proceedings of the 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2006)
Numerical Evaluation of the Flowfield for a High Fineness Ratio Body with Drag Brakes (with James A. Divine, Thomas R. Yechout, David C. Wetlesen, and Joseph J. Kealos), 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2006)
The Advanced Remote Ground Unattended Sensor (ARGUS) utilizes drag brakes to control its terminal velocity...
The Influence of Viscosity and Surface Curvature on the Pressure Distribution of a Stream Thrust Probe (with Renee Pasman), 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2006)
Determining the local stream thrust (a vector quantity) from a measured pitot pressure (a scalar...
Continuing Evolution of Aerodynamic Concept Development Using Collaborative Numerical and Experimental Evaluations (with Scott A. Morton), Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2006)
Traditionally, computational predictions and experimental evaluations of aerodynamic concepts have been conducted separately, with little...
Critical Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic Phenomena (with John J. Bertin), Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (2006)
The challenges in understanding hypersonic flight are discussed and critical hypersonic aerothermodynamics issues are reviewed....
Technology and You: Working with the Aerospace Industry to Enhance Engineering Education (with John H. McMasters), Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005)
While many engineers in the aerospace engineering profession know that interacting with students is a...
Computational Aerodynamics Goes To School: A Course in CFD for Undergraduate Students (with Scott A. Morton), 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2005)
As aerodynamics education has evolved over the past decades, a slow transition from important analytic...
Deformation of Unstructured Viscous Grids (with Denis B. Kholodar and Scott A. Morton), 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2005)
A mesh deformation algorithm for unstructured grids is presented. It is designed for high Reynolds...
DES Turbulence Modeling on the C-130 Comparison between Computational and Experimental Results (with Malcom P. Claus, Scott A. Morton, and Yannick Bury), 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2005)
This paper represents the results from the initial phase of a research program to determine...
Experimental Verification of the Aerodynamics of Stream Thrust Probes (with Robert S. Hiers III, James R. Sirbaugh, Capt Barrett T. McCann, Cadet Laura S. Luft, and Cadet Dimitrios P. Grillos), 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2005)
Determining the local stream thrust (a vector quantity) from a measured pitot pressure (a scalar...
Modeling and Simulation Research and Instruction at the U.S. Air Force Academy (with Scott A. Morton and Keith Bergeron), AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit (2004)
Modeling and simulation has become a driving force within the engineering and science communities as...
High Resolution Turbulence Treatment of F/A-18 Tail Buffet (with Scott A. Morton and Denis B. Kholodar), 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structure, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference (2004)
Unsteady tail loads of the F/A-18 are computed using various turbulence models at an angle...
Airplane Design and the Biomechanics of Flight – A More Completely Multi- Disciplinary Perspective (with John H. McMasters), 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2004)
Aeronautics is usually presumed to have started as a formal engineering discipline somewhere in historical...
Detached-Eddy Simulation of Slat and Flap Aerodynamics for a High-Lift Wing (with Scott A. Morton and James R. Forsythe), 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2004)
Three-dimensional multi-element wings are simulated to investigate slat and flap aerodynamics using Detached-Eddy Simulation. The...
Some Systemic Issues in the Development of the Aerospace Industry Technical Workforce of the Future (with John H. McMasters), 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2004)
This paper is a continuation of the authors’ previous examinations of a suite of issues...
Fifty Years of Hypersonics: Where We've Been, Where We're Going (with John J. Bertin), Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2003)
Hypersonic flight has been with us since 22 September 1963, when Robert M. White flew...
Computational Challenges in High Angle of Attack Flow Prediction (with James R. Forsythe, Scott A. Morton, and Kyle D. Squires), Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2003)
Aircraft aerodynamics have been predicted using computational fluid dynamics for a number of years. While...
Multidisciplinary Applications of Detached-Eddy Simulation to Separated Flows at High Reynolds Numbers (with Scott A. Morton, Matt Steenman, James R. Forsythe, Kenneth E. Wurtzler, Kyle D. Squires, Shawn H. Woodson, and Phillippe R. Spalart), Proceedings of the 2003 User Group Conference (2003)
We focus on multidisciplinary applications of detached-eddy simulation (DES), principally flight mechanics and aeroelasticity. Specifically,...
A Multifaceted Approach to the AIAA Foundation Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition (with Aaron R. Byerley), 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2003)
A multifaceted, novel approach was used to help students create entries for the AIAA Foundation...
Computational Simulation and PIV Measurements of the Laminar Vortical Flowfield for a Delta Wing at High Angle of Attack (with Scott A. Morton and Stefan G. Siegel), 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2003)
The low-speed, laminar flowfield for a 70°-sweep delta wing is investigated. Solutions to the unsteady,...
DES Grid Resolution Issues for Vortical Flows on a Delta Wing and an F-18C (with Scott A. Morton, Mathew B. Steenman, and James R. Forsythe), 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2003)
An assessment of unstructured grids for use in Detached-Eddy Simulations (DES) of vortical flowfields over...
Navier-Stokes Analysis of Lift-Enhancing Tabs on Multi-Element Airfoils (with Paul G. Carrannanto, Bruce L. Storms, and James C. Ross), Aircraft Design (1998)
The flow over multi-element airfoils with flat-plate lift-enhancing tabs was numerically investigated. Tabs ranging in...
Numerical Investigation of an Airfoil with a Gurney Flap (with Cory S. Jang and James C. Ross), Aircraft Design (1998)
A two-dimensional numerical investigation was performed to determine the effect of a Gurney flap on...
Determination of Drag From Three-Dimensional Viscous and Inviscid Flowfield Computations (with David L. Hunt and M. B. Giles), AIAA 15th Applied Aerodynamics Conference (1997)
A momentum balance approach is used to extract the drag from flowfield computations for wings...
Integrating Multidisciplinary Design in an Undergraduate Curriculum (with H. Jo Anne Freeman), AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Symposium (1996)
Multidisciplinary design and analysis has become the normal mode of operation within most aerospace companies,...
Analysis of the Elements of Drag in Three-Dimensional Viscous and Inviscid Flows (with M. B. Giles and G. N. Shrinivas), AIAA 14th Applied Aerodynamics Conference (1996)
This paper examines the analytical, experimental, and computational aspects of tlie determination of the drag...
Supersonic, Turbulent Flow Computation and Drag Optimization for Axisymmetric Afterbodies (with H. T. Yang and Y. H. Oh), Computers & Fluids (1995)
The compressible, turbulent flow about an axisymmetric body was numerically studied using the MacCormack unsplit...
Numerical Design of Advanced Multi-Element Airfoils (with Donovan L. Mathias), Report Number NASA-CR 197135 (1994)
The current study extends the application of computational fluid dynamics to three-dimensional high-lift systems. Structured,...
Computational Analysis of Forebody Tangential Slot Blowing (with Ken Gee, Roxana M. Agosta-Greenman, Yehia M. Rizk, and Lewis B. Schiff), 4th NASA High Alpha Conference (1994)
Numerical Prediction of Transition of the F-16 Wing at Supersonic Speeds - Final Report (with Joseph A. Garcia), Report Number NASA-CR 194407 (1993)
Numerical Prediction of Transition of the F-16 Wing at Supersonic Speeds, Report Number NASA-CR 192706 (1993)
Computational Investigation Of Slot Blowing For Fuselage Forebody Flow Control (with Scott M. Murman, Yehia M. Rizk, and Lewis B. Schiff), 30th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit (1992)
This paper presents a computational investigation of a tangential slot blowing concept for generating lateral...
Numerical Simulation of F-18 Fuselage Forebody Flows at High Angles of Attack (with Lewis B. Schiff, Reese L. Sorenson, and Yehia M. Rizk), Proceedings of the NASA CFD Conference (1989)
As part of the NASA High Alpha Technology Program, fine-grid Navier-Stokes solutions have been obtained...