Numerical Study of an External Store Released from a Fighter aircraft

  • Han, Cheol-Heui (Department of Aeronautical and Mechanical Design Engineering, Chungju National University) ;
  • Yoon, Young-Hyun (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Air Force Academy) ;
  • Cho, Hwan-Kee (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Air Force Academy) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Hyun (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Air Force Academy)
  • Published : 2008.10.24

Abstract

The prediction of the separation trajectories of the external stores released from a military aircraft is an important task in the aircraft design area having the objective to define the operational and release envelopes. This paper presents the results obtained for store separation by employing commercial sorftwares, FLUENT and CFD-FASTRAN. FLUENT treats the rigid body motion by employing the remeshing scheme. CFD-FASTRAN uses the chimera(overset) grid and interpolations. It was found that, for the prediction of the trajectories and behavior of the stores separated from the wing, both codes shows the good agreement with the experimental results.

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