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Ian is currently working on creating a workflow for the Rockets team to get a better qualitative aerodynamic understanding of interesting geometries on rocket bodies.  

Ian is currently working on creating a workflow for the Rockets team to get a better qualitative aerodynamic understanding of interesting geometries on rocket bodies.  

[[File:ONERA_M6.png | thumb | right | 350px | ONERA M6 wing in freestream flow with Ma ~ .8 visualized in Paraview]]

[[File:ONERA_M6.png | thumb | right | 330px | ONERA M6 wing in freestream flow with Ma ~ 0.8 visualized in Paraview]]

=The Big Picture=

=The Big Picture=

Credit to the [https://solarcar.stanford.edu/ Stanford Solar Car Project] (SSCP) for giving us hints as to how they set up their own CFD workflow. Also big thanks to [http://adl.stanford.edu/people/jjalonso.html Juan Alonso] for helping us set up SU2 on Stanford's corn machine.  

Credit to the [https://solarcar.stanford.edu/ Stanford Solar Car Project] (SSCP) for giving us hints as to how they set up their own CFD workflow. Also big thanks to [http://adl.stanford.edu/people/jjalonso.html Juan Alonso] for helping us set up SU2 on Stanford's corn machine.  

==[http://www.solidworks.com/ Solidworks]==  

==[[Solidworks]]==  

SSI's computer aided design program of choice since it is used in industry and is fairly easy to learn (and free for students). SSCP uses a lot of surfacing in order to get the complex geometries that they require. Most of our rockets will not require incredibly organic shapes (aside from a nose cone) so no need to get fancy. Any design (part, assembly, assembly of assemblies, etc) can be meshed with Pointwise.  

SSI's computer aided design program of choice since it is used in industry and is fairly easy to learn (and free for students). SSCP uses a lot of surfacing in order to get the complex geometries that they require. Most of our rockets will not require incredibly organic shapes (aside from a nose cone) so no need to get fancy. Any design (part, assembly, assembly of assemblies, etc) can be meshed with Pointwise. [http://www.solidworks.com/ Link to site].

==[http://www.pointwise.com/ Pointwise]==

==[[Pointwise]]==

Currently on their way to becoming a sponsor of SSI, Pointwise accepts Solidworks files and meshes them for you. Obviously, this part is extremely important in identifying the interesting geometries. (I haven't worked with Pointwise very much yet, so more on this to come).  

Currently on their way to becoming a sponsor of SSI, Pointwise accepts Solidworks files and meshes them for you. Obviously, this part is extremely important in identifying the interesting geometries. (I haven't worked with Pointwise very much yet, so more on this to come). [http://www.pointwise.com/ Link to site].

==[http://su2.stanford.edu/ SU2]==

==[[SU2]]==

Stanford developed, open source numerical flow solver. Written primarily in C++, the solver can easily extended due to its object-oriented programming and has fantastically written documentation. This will be SSI's solver of choice for the foreseeable future.  

Stanford developed, open source numerical flow solver. Written primarily in C++, the solver can easily extended due to its object-oriented programming and has fantastically written documentation. This will be SSI's solver of choice for the foreseeable future. [http://su2.stanford.edu/ Link to site].

==[http://www.paraview.org/ Paraview]==

==[http://www.paraview.org/ Paraview]==

Open source visualizer which is optimized for very large datasets. A complex but also well-documented tool which will be SSI's visualizer of choice.  

Open source visualizer which is optimized for very large datasets. A complex but also well-documented tool which will be SSI's visualizer of choice.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[[Category:Rockets]]

[[Category:Rockets]]