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Major progress has been made in recent years on the development of unstructured mesh methods for the solution of compressible aerodynamic flows of practical interest. In this paper we indicate the current status of our work in this area by outlining a low storage, computationally efficient algorithm for the solution of the compressible Euler equations on unstructured tetrahedral meshes. The performance of the algorithm is demonstrated by including the results of a numerical analysis of a flow past an installed aero-engine nacelle. Recent work on improving the computational efficiency by incorporating an unstructured multigrid acceleration procedure is described and demonstrated for a complete twin engined aircraft configuration.
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Peraire, J., Peiró, J., Morgan, K., Hassan, O. (1991). The Computation of Aerodynamic Flows Using Unstructured Meshes. In: Oñate, E., Periaux, J., Samuelsson, A. (eds) The finite element method in the 1990’s. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10326-5_45
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