Fluid flow over the Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle.

This program looks at the output of the simulated air flow over the Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle (SSLV). This particular aeronautical simulation has the space shuttle in launch configuration, including the external tank, shuttle rocket boosters and some interconnection hardware. Only one half of the geometry (and surrounding flow field) is represented, as the data are assumed to be symmetric about the central plane. All realizations are mirrored across this axis to create the full geometry. The orbiter tail is missing from this geometric description. The surface geometry was determined by extracting the surface for which the velocity is [0,0,0] over the whole volume.

This data set was acquired at NASA Ames from Pieter Buning and contributed by Sam Uselton.