Computational Simulation of a Semispan Wing in a Wind Tunnel

The computational simulation of wind tunnel tests are central in efforts to improve the accuracy and range of applicability of CFD codes. A validation experiment in solid wall transonic wind tunnel is simulated with the inviscid and viscous tunnel wall computation models. Viscous wall modeling appears to provide the ability to reproduce the experimental conditions fairly well without wall interference corrections but specification of the actual wall geometry is crucial.