Documentation for Codes and Theses

Papers

This material supports journal and conference papers that have been published.

• Animated GIF images for Simulation of a complete reflected shock tunnel showing a vortex mechanism for flow contamination.

Reports

Some of the following reports are supplied as compressed postscript files, some as PDF and others as HTML. Hopefully, you can cope with the mix of formats.
MB_CNS

• Report 2004/10 (PDF), (compressed PS) is the MB_CNS Example book.
• ICASE Interim Report 18 (1991) (compressed PS) (PDF) on the Navier-Stokes solver CNS4U. CNS4U was eventually superceded by MB_CNS, however, this report continues to serve as the primary document for much of the current formulation.
• Report 10/96 (compressed PS) (PDF) on MB_CNS updates the documentation on the multiple-block version of the Navier-Stokes code.
• Report 7/98 (also on MB_CNS) is now in hypertext format and describes the new user interface to the program. This document will evolve (slowly) with the actual program.
• Report 2005/10(PDF) describes the alternative Python-based input format for mb_cns.

• Report 13/98 (compressed PS) (PDF) is the documentation for theory behind the Lagrangian 1-D program.
• Report 1/99 describes the user interface to the Lagrangian 1-D programs. This document will evolve (slowly) with the actual program.
• Report 2005/09(PDF) describes the newer, Python-based input format.

• Report 3/00 describes the user interface to the Interactive Method-of-Characteristics program. This document will evolve (slowly) with the actual program.

• Report 2002/08 is the entry point for the tunnel data server and client code.
• Report 2003/06 (compressed PS) (PDF) describes the server-side of the shock-tunnel data archive.
• Report 2004/14 (PDF) describes the databox management software.

• Report 2/93 STN, Shock Tube and Nozzle Calculations for Equilibrium Air.
• Report 5/96 (compressed PS) (PDF) is the documentation for Kevin's Newtonian flow solver.
• Report 6/98 (compressed PS) (PDF) on the space-marching solver SM_3D+. Chris' additions include a finite-rate chemistry model and (parabolized) terms for the viscous stresses.
• Report 2003/09 (compressed PS) (PDF) describes Rowan's finite-rate chemistry module.
• Report 2005/16 (PDF) Elements of Python Programming: Notes for users of the Python-style imput files.

Documentation extracted from the source codes.

Much of the code collection now has Doxygen comments. Start here.

Theses by group members and associates.

• Kevin Austin Evolutionary Design of Robust Flight Control for a Hypersonic Aircraft (compressed PS)
• Chris Craddock Computational Optimization of Scramjets and Shock Tunnel Nozzles (PDF)
• Michael Elford Validation of a CFD Solver for Hypersonic Flows (PDF)
• James Faddy Computational Modelling for Shock Tube Flows (compressed PS)
• Richard J. Goozee Simulation of a Complete Shock Tunnel using Parallel Computer Codes (compressed PS)
• Haruko Ishikawa Investigations of Optimum Design of Heat Exchangers of Thermoacoustic Engines (PDF) (compressed PS)
• Ian Johnston Simulation of Flow Around Blunt-Nosed Vehicles for the Calibration of Air-Data Systems (PDF)
• Charles Lilley A Macroscopic Chemistry Method for the Direct Simulation of Nonequilibrium Gas Flows (PDF)
• Paul Petrie-Repar Numerical Simulation of Diaphragm Rupture (PDF)
• Ben Stewart Predicted Scremjet Testing Capabilities of the Proposed RHYFL-X Expansion Tube (PDF) (compressed PS)
• Vince Wheatley Modelling Low-Density Flow in Hypersonic Impulse Facilities (compressed PS)

Last Updated by PJ 08-November-2005