WORKSTATION REACTING NAVIER-STOKES COMPUTER CODE

AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH IS PROPOSED TO THE DESIGN PROBLEMS OF COMPONENTS FOR CHEMICALLY REACTING FLOWS. UNDER THIS PROPOSAL, A COMPUTER CODE WOULD BE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN A WORKSTATION ENVIRONMENT. ALL INPUT/OUTPUT WOULD BE PERFORMED ON THE WORKSTATION VIA INTERACTIVE PROTOCOLS AND ACTUAL COMPUTATIONS WOULD BE PERFORMED EITHER ON THE WORKSTATION OR ROUTED TO A MAINFRAME COMPUTER AT THE DISCRETION OF THE USER. DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH A PROCEDURE WOULD OVERCOME THE CHIEF PROBLEM IN APPLYING SOPHISTICATED CODES TO THE DESIGN PROCESS; THAT BEING EASE OF SETTING UP THE FLOW PROBLEM AND INTERROGATING RESULTS. UNDER PHASE I, A WORKSTATION INPUT MODULE FOR CHEMICAL LASER NOZZLES WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED AND A DEMONSTRATION CALCULATION MADE. PHASE II EFFORTS WOULD INCLUDE MORE SOPHISTICATED CHEMISTRY PACKAGES, DEVELOPMENT OF A WALL FUNCTION VERSION OF THE CODE, INCLUSION OF MORE SOPHISTICATED TRANSPORT MODELS, EXTENSION TO MORE GENERAL REACTING FLOW SYSTEMS, DEVELOPMENTOF AN INTERACTIVE WORKSTATION OUTPUT INTERROGATION PROTOCOL AND CONVERSION OF THE CODE TO ALLOW COMPUTATIONS TO BE RUN ON A WORKSTATION. THIS WORKSTATION CREATED CODE WOULD BE A MAJOR BOON TO DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERS AND SCIENTIFICS.