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AIAA committee on standards for computational fluid dynamics - Status and plans

Cosner, Raymond R.; Oberkampf, William L.; Rahaim, Christopher P.; Shih, Tom I.P.

Computational simulation methods in areas such as fluid dynamics have become a critical element of the aerospace vehicle development process. However, engineering groups are reluctant to make critical design decisions based solely on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Instead, acquiring similar data from independent sources, such as wind tunnel testing, mitigates the perceived risks due to feared deficiencies in CFD data. Verification and validation of CFD codes and calculations is the process of determining the level of confidence that can be placed in the resulting CFD data. The AIAA Committee on Standards for CFD has been a significant contributor to the development of sound practices for CFD verification and validation. A summary of the recent work of this Committee is presented here.