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A Software Upgrade of the NASA Aeroheating Code "MINIVER"Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a powerful and versatile tool simulating fluid and thermal environments of launch and re-entry vehicles alike. Where it excels in power and accuracy, however, it lacks in speed. An alternative tool for this purpose is known as MINIVER, an aeroheating code widely used by NASA and within the aerospace industry. Capable of providing swift, reasonably accurate approximations of the fluid and thermal environment of launch vehicles, MINIVER is used where time is of the essence and accuracy need not be exact. However, MINIVER is an old, aging tool: running on a user-unfriendly, legacy command-line interface, it is difficult for it to keep pace with more modem software tools. Florida Institute of Technology was tasked with the construction of a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) that implemented the legacy version's capabilities and enhanced them with new tools and utilities. This thesis provides background to the legacy version of the program, the progression and final version of a modem user interface, and benchmarks to demonstrate its usefulness.
Document ID
20130014507
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Thesis/Dissertation
Authors
Louderback, Pierce Mathew
(Florida Inst. of Tech. Melbourne, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 2013
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics
Report/Patent Number
KSC-2013-154
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS10-02026
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNK12LA12C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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