Project Title:

Error Analysis for Computational Fluid Dynamics

Creare Incorporated
P.O. Box 71
Hanover, NH 03755

93-1 02.01 3800 

Error Analysis for Computational Fluid Dynamics

Abstract:

Present CFD software provides only crude or no estimates of
uncertainty in the calculated results. To bring error analysis in
CFD to the level of development achieved for experimental data
requires a systematic application of error analysis principles.
This project proposes to develop an error analysis methodology
and, if continued through Phase II, software to estimate
uncertainty in CFD calculations. The methodology will be
demonstrated in Phase I by CFD performance and uncertainty
calculations, comparisons with data, and a complete error
analysis for a basic problem of applied interest. The resulting
methods and algorithms will be applicable to a wide range of
other CFD problems. 

The methods and software developed on this project will be
applicable to error analysis of CFD calculations for a wide
variety of government and industrial users of CFD.

computational fluid dynamics, uncertainty, error analysis