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A summary of the results obtained using the flow solver HiFUN for the 3D High lift NASA Trapezoidal wing are presented. Hybrid unstructured grids have been used for the computations. Grid converged solution obtained for the clean wing and the wing with support brackets, are compared with experimental data. The ability of the solver to predict critical design parameters associated with the high lift flow, such as α max and \(C_{L_{max}}\) is demonstrated. The utility of the CFD tools, in predicting change in aerodynamic parameters in response to perturbational changes in the configuration is brought out. The solutions obtained for the high lift configuration from two variants of the Spalart-Almaras turbulence model are compared. Inferences from the study on useful design practices pertaining to the 3D high lift flow simulations are summarized.

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  1. http://www.nal.res.in/ncad/.

  2. http://aaac.larc.nasa.gov/tsab/cfdlarc/aiaa-dpw.

  3. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/.

  4. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/index-workshop1.html.

  5. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/98-99WebArchiveWithMods/TrapWingDataArchive.html.

  6. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/Workshop1/experiment-toppage.html.

  7. http://sandi.co.in/v2/home/.

  8. http://turbmodels.larc.nasa.gov/spalart.html.

  9. https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/hifun1.pdf.

  10. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/Workshop1/grids.html.

  11. 1 C L count = 10−3, 1 C D count = 10−4, 1 C M count = 10−3.

  12. http://aaac.larc.nasa.gov/tsab/cfdlarc/aiaa-dpw/.

  13. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/wind/valid/tutorial/spatconv.html.

  14. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/Workshop1/experiment.html.

  15. http://hiliftpw.larc.nasa.gov/Workshop1/experiment.html.

  16. http://turbmodels.larc.nasa.gov/spalart.html (NASA Langley Research Center : Turbulence Modeling Resource).

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The authors like to acknowledge the results provided by Dr. N. Munikrishna, CTO, S&I Engineering Solutions for making the comparison of HiFUN results with and without preconditioner, presented in Sect. 5.

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Gopalakrishna, N., Ravindra, K., Shende, N.V. et al. 3D high lift flow computations using HiFUN. Int J Adv Eng Sci Appl Math 6, 222–241 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12572-015-0124-3

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