5. June 2015 Workshop

5.1. Overview

Bob Biedron, Jan-Renee Carlson, Peter Gnoffo, Bill Jones, Eric Nielsen, and Mike Park hosted a two-day FUN3D training workshop co-located with the 2015 AIAA Aviation conference in Dallas, Texas. A broad range of participants in industry, academia, and government agencies attended from around the country.

5.2. Agenda and Materials

The list of workshop sessions follows. Training content is designed for use with FUN3D v12.7.

The complete set of slides for the workshop may be downloaded as a single PDF file here , or individual PDFs for each session may be downloaded below.

A tarball of all tutorial cases is available for download here .

Saturday, June 20

Instructor Time
Session 1: Meet and Greet
PDF
All
8:00-8:30
Session 2: Welcome and Overview
PDF | Video
Eric Nielsen
8:30-9:00
Session 3: Compilation and Installation
PDF | Video
Bill Jones
9:00-9:15
Session 4: Gridding, Solution, and Visualization Basics
PDF | Video
Eric Nielsen
9:15-10:15
BREAK

10:15-10:30
Session 5: Boundary Conditions
PDF | Video
Jan-Renee Carlson
10:30-11:00
Session 6: Turbulence Models
PDF | Video
Jan-Renee Carlson
11:00-11:30
Session 7: Supersonic / Hypersonic Perfect Gas Simulations
PDF | Video
Mike Park
11:30-12:00
CATERED LUNCH: Lightning Talks
Shuchi Yang, Zona Technology: “Prediction of F-15 Buffet Loads by the Stick-to-Stress Dynamic Flight Simulation System”
Walt Silva, NASA Langley Research Center: “Having FUN3D with Sonic Booms and Reduced-Order Models”
Karen Deere, NASA Langley Research Center: “FUN3D CFD Analyses of Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) Configurations”
Matt Hill, Bell Helicopter: “Rotating Hub Drag Prediction Methodology”
Bob Biedron, NASA Langley Research Center: “Unstructured Grid Rotorcraft Simulations”
Bill Jones, NASA Langley Research Center: “Multi-point Adjoint-Based Design of Tilt-Rotors in a Noninertial Reference Frame”
Patrick Blonigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Unsteady Adjoints for Chaotic Fluid Flows”
Mike Park, NASA Langley Research Center: “F-16XL Hybrid Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes/Large Eddy Simulation on Unstructured Grids”
Various
12:00-1:15
Session 8: Parameterization Tools
PDF | Video
Bill Jones
1:15-2:15
Session 9: Adjoint-Based Design for Steady Flows
PDF | Video
Eric Nielsen
2:15-3:45
BREAK

3:45-4:00
Session 10: Feature and Adjoint-Based Error Estimation and Mesh Adaptation
PDF | Video
Mike Park
4:00-5:00


Sunday, June 21

Instructor Time
Session 11: Time-Dependent Simulations
PDF | Video
Bob Biedron
8:00-8:30
Session 12: Dynamic Grid Simulations
PDF | Video
Bob Biedron
8:30-9:00
Session 13: Suggar++ Basics
PDF | Video
Ralph Noack
9:00-10:00
BREAK

10:00-10:15
Session 14: Overset Grid Simulations
PDF | Video
Bob Biedron
10:15-10:45
Session 15: Adjoint-Based Design for Unsteady Flows
PDF | Video
Eric Nielsen
10:45-12:00
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

12:00-1:00
Session 16: Aeroelastic Simulations
PDF | Video
Bob Biedron
1:00-1:45
Session 17: Rotorcraft Simulations
PDF | Video
Bob Biedron
1:45-2:45
BREAK

2:45-3:00
Session 18: Current Development Activities, Summary of User Feedback and Requests
All
3:00-4:00
Session 19: High-Energy / Generic Gas Simulations
* Please see important note for this session below *
Peter Gnoffo
4:00-4:30


Important Note for Session 19 on High-Energy Flows

Due to security regulations, workshop participants who would like to attend this session will be required to present a valid US passport as proof of US citizenship. There will be no exceptions to this requirement. The FUN3D team apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.

5.3. Images