Browcoats doing Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)?

POSTED BY: 03K64FF
UPDATED: Saturday, December 15, 2007 00:51
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03K64FF

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 10:56 PM

Heeya Spacefarers!!

Just purely out of curiosity. is there any Browncoat working in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)? Studying or Working in an industrial setting?

Dear Moderator, if this thread is in the inappropriate place, please move and accept my apologies.

Thanks,
~Jariwala

SIGMANUNKI

Thursday, December 6, 2007 12:48 AM

I remember someone here saying that he was working one missile plumes, or some such. But, that's as close as I've seen referenced here. Though it ~~probably~~ might involves CFD. If there is a more specific question, that might prove more fruitful.

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OUT2THEBLACK

Saturday, December 8, 2007 4:00 AM

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Originally posted by 03K64FF:
Heeya Spacefarers!!

Just purely out of curiosity. is there any Browncoat working in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)? Studying or Working in an industrial setting?

Thanks,
~Jariwala

Hey Aught3 ,

You thinkin' 'bout runnin' a CFD aerodynamics

analysis of our Shiny ship ?

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" Will work for Bar Credit at The Brown Coat Pub and Theatre " .

03K64FF

Saturday, December 8, 2007 2:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by out2theblack:
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Originally posted by 03K64FF:
Heeya Spacefarers!!

Just purely out of curiosity. is there any Browncoat working in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)? Studying or Working in an industrial setting?

Thanks,
~Jariwala

Hey Aught3 ,

You thinkin' 'bout runnin' a CFD aerodynamics

analysis of our Shiny ship ?

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" Will work for Bar Credit at The Brown Coat Pub and Theatre " .

That's the notion! Well, running a CFD analysis for the whole ship would be require serious amount of work and not to mention the data for the surface profile! I have Serenity Blue Prints from QMx (Limited Edition, mine is numbered 30!;-) ), but dimensions alone won't help. Plus this is a space vehicle, which travels through all the regions of atmosphere. So that analysis is going to be seriously complex! Different regimes of fluid flow apply, depending upon where it is located during flight. e.g. on the edge of the atmosphere, it would be rarified gas flow. I am not sure but I guess someday, I will have carried out the analysis and posted pretty pictures like these:

~Jari

OUT2THEBLACK

Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:09 AM

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Originally posted by 03K64FF:
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Originally posted by out2theblack:
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Originally posted by 03K64FF:
Heeya Spacefarers!!

Just purely out of curiosity. is there any Browncoat working in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)? Studying or Working in an industrial setting?

Thanks,
~Jariwala

Hey Aught3 ,

You thinkin' 'bout runnin' a CFD aerodynamics

analysis of our Shiny ship ?

That's the notion! Well, running a CFD analysis for the whole ship would be require serious amount of work and not to mention the data for the surface profile! I have Serenity Blue Prints from QMx (Limited Edition, mine is numbered 30!;-) ), but dimensions alone won't help. Plus this is a space vehicle, which travels through all the regions of atmosphere. So that analysis is going to be seriously complex! Different regimes of fluid flow apply, depending upon where it is located during flight. e.g. on the edge of the atmosphere, it would be rarified gas flow. I am not sure but I guess someday, I will have carried out the analysis...

~Jari

Where are you going to school/working , Jari ?

Would it help you to have 3d Meshes of Serenity ?

I'd love to see what you do with CFD and our

ship !

Meanwhile , I realized that that you are an

ideal recruit for our BROWNCOAT space project !

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/SPACEBORNEFORCES

...And a little video from our Sponsor :

http://www.jpaerospace.com/video/Floating_w_Commentary.mov

We'd be pleased to have you along...There's been

some amazing stuff done already , with more to

come !

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" Will work for Bar Credit at The Brown Coat Pub and Theatre "

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 03K64FF:
Heeya Spacefarers!!

Just purely out of curiosity. is there any Browncoat working in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)? Studying or Working in an industrial setting?

Something like that. I do boost phase and plume analysis and modeling for SMDC. We do use CFD codes to predict aerothermal heating, nozzle flow fields and plume impingement. I can tell you right now that you won’t be able to develop a CFD model that generates scenes for Serenity. We’ve already tried it with the Millennium Falcon. These kinds of things look cool in the movies, but any real physics based flowfields applied to them will require material properties that just don’t exist. I guess you could play with the material properties until you got something that worked, but that's a lot of work just for pretty pictures.

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