Japan Defense Agency 3rd Research Center, Technical Research and Development Institute
Japan Defense Agency 3rd Research Center, Technical Research and Development Institute
出版者
航空宇宙技術研究所
出版者(英)
National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL)
雑誌名
航空宇宙技術研究所特別資料
雑誌名(英)
Special Publication of National Aerospace Laboratory
巻
46
ページ
93 - 98
発行年
2000-12
会議概要(会議名, 開催地, 会期, 主催者等)
航空宇宙技術研究所 7-9 Jun. 2000 東京 日本
会議概要(会議名, 開催地, 会期, 主催者等)(英)
National Aerospace Laboratory 7-9 Jun. 2000 Tokyo Japan
According to the recent rapid progress of high performance computing, aerodynamic design methodology based largely on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) is becoming an indispensable tool along with wind tunnel testing. In 1991, TRDIJDA (Technical Research and Development Institute, Japan Defense Agency) has started the 'CASPER (Computational Aerodynamics System for Performance Evaluation and Research)' project together with major domestic aircraft manufactures, MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), KHI (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) and FHI (Fuji Heavy Industries). The CASPER was installed in 1998. The CASPER is expected to be very useful to develop high performance advanced fighter at the beginning of the 21st century. In this paper, evolution and highlights of hardware and software of the CASPER are shown. For the CFD code validation, numerous flow computations of various aircraft and airfoil configurations are carried out on the CASPER and compared well to wind tunnel experiments. Providing CFD data for aeroelastic and flight simulation modules, the CASPER also has the potential for multidisciplinary simulation. Some of the numerical results on the CASPER are introduced.