Multi-Element Airfoil
[1998]
Gridgen's hyperbolic solver was used to create this single-zone
structured quad-cell grid for a multi-element airfoil.
After importing the geometry definition, the user simply
defined grid point locations along the perimeter of each element,
linked them all together, and invoked the hyperbolic solver which
automatically marched the grid outward from the airfoil surface
to the farfield. The resulting grid is orthogonal and clustered
toward the airfoil surface and grows smoothly outward without any
crossed cells. Additionally, the topology is extremely simple -
a single zone.
This airfoil, data for which was published in AGARD-AR-303,
(1994), is typical of the type the high lift aerofoil geometry
used in commercial aircraft wing design.
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