15th international conference on Numerical methods in fluid dynamics. Proceedings, Monterey, CA, USA, June 24--28, 1996 (Q1374799)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. The preceding conference (14th, 1994) has been announced (see Zbl 0823.00027).] The conference on numerical methods in fluid dynamics held June 24-28, in Monterey, California, should provide a forum for the dissemination of technical information through presentations and personal interactions in the discipline of computational fluid dynamics. The 101 selected papers may be divided into the following basic areas: Numerical techniques including grid adaption, structured and unstructured grids, direct numerical simulations, parallel computing and Fourier spectral methods; fundamental flow problems including incompressible and compressible, inviscid and viscous, hypersonic non-equilibrium flows; special flow problems like transition to turbulence, turbulence modelling, nonlinear water waves, surface tension with Marangoni-Bénard flows and solar wind physics, and applications to advanced aircraft configurations and multistage turbine flows. The papers give a perfect illustration of the present status of theoretical and numerical flow research, and the reader will find stimulating proposals for effective calculation procedures. The reader can also find here design methods for the optimization of airfoils, a fast design of transonic airfoils, and an approach to inflight icing problems, which are useful tools for design of advanced aircraft configurations. Additionally, a newly developed finite volume Navier-Stokes code is presented which can effectively solve large-scale industrial flow problems. This large-scale Navier-Stokes simulation was designed for efficient execution on massively parallel processor/supercomputer architectures, and for subsequent applications of this method to the prediction of viscous flowfields about wing aircrafts and rotorcrafts by using large-scale computational grids.