Viscous computation

The viscous computation for this tutorial was carried out using the Integral-Boundary-Layer (IBL) method which is a fast approximate method to assess heat transfer and skin-friction at the surface of a vehicle. In this part of the tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Visualize surface data (velocity, pressure, etc.),
• Plot surface (inviscid) streamlines using Paraview,
• Make contour plots of surface heat transfer using Paraview.

Mach 6 blunt cone at 20° angle-of-attack: Surface temperature contour plot.

Mach 6 blunt cone at 20° angle-of-attack: Inviscid or surface streamlines.

Mach 6 blunt cone at 20° angle-of-attack: Laminar surface heat transfer.

Mach 6 blunt cone at 20° angle-of-attack: Laminar and turbulent heat transfer at x = 0.24m.

Note: Paraview is an open source post-processing visualization engine.