Numerical simulation of the integrated space shuttle vehicle in ascent

摘要: A simulation of the flow about integrated space shuttle vehicle in ascent mode has been undertaken for various flight conditions using Chimera composite grid discretization approach. Overset body-conforming grids were used to represent each geometric component, and an implicit approximately factored finite-difference procedure was solve three-dimensional thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations. The computational results have compared with both wind tunnel test data. Although relatively good agreement is obtained experimental data, further refinement evaluation numerical error under way.