Case Directory
This section collects the verification and validation cases. Each case includes its run provenance, conditions, results, and comparison data.
The left sidebar groups cases by physical case type (flat plate, cylinder, airfoils, …) for browsing. This page instead groups them by verification vs. validation — see below — since that distinction matters for interpreting a result but isn’t what most readers browse by first.
How Cases Are Classified
Verification and validation answer different questions, and this report keeps them apart. The test is simply what the result is compared against.
| Verification | Validation | |
|---|---|---|
| Question | Are the equations solved correctly? | Are the correct equations solved? |
| Compared against | Exact or analytical solutions, published results from other codes (code-to-code), grid convergence, agreement between independent schemes | Experimental data, or a correlation fitted to experimental data |
Two consequences worth stating explicitly:
- The institution is not the criterion; the nature of the reference is. The Turbulent Flat-Plate Boundary Layer case uses NASA TMR material, but it is compared against CFL3D and FUN3D computations, so it is verification rather than validation.
- Verification precedes validation. Where numerical error has not been bounded, close agreement with an experiment can be error cancellation rather than physical accuracy. Each case states what it actually established.
Within each category, cases are grouped by solver: DBNS (density-based Navier–Stokes), PBNS (pressure-based Navier–Stokes), or FR (Flux Reconstruction, high-order).
PBNS and FR are in development. Their published cases document specific verified or validated conditions; they do not establish production readiness across the broader solver paths.
Verification
DBNS
- 2D Laminar Flat-Plate Boundary Layer — Blasius & Pohlhausen Verification
- 2D Turbulent Flat-Plate Boundary Layer — NASA TMR SA Verification
- 2D Turbulent Flat-Plate Boundary Layer — NASA TMR SST Verification
- 2D Turbulent Flat-Plate Boundary Layer, M=2 and M=5 — NASA TMR SA Verification
- Supersonic Wedge — Oblique-Shock Verification
- Forward-Facing Step — Supersonic Shock-System Verification
- 2D Coflowing Jet — NASA TMR SA Verification
- Laminar Cylinder Vortex Shedding — Time Integration and Precision Comparison
- Conjugate Heat Transfer — Flat Plate Verification
- Prandtl-Meyer Expansion Fan — Isentropic Verification
- CRM DPW-5 Wing–Body — SA Grid-Convergence Verification
- 2D Airfoil Near-Wake — NASA TMR SA and SST Verification
PBNS
FR
Validation
DBNS
- Laminar Cylinder Vortex Shedding — Explicit Classical RK4
- 2D Transonic Airfoil — RAE2822 RANS Validation
- 2D Planar Mixing Layer — SA/SST Validation
- 3D Supersonic Square Duct — SA-QCR2000 Secondary-Flow Validation
- 2D NACA0012 Airfoil — SA RANS Polar Validation
- 3D Sphere Bow Shock — Stand-off Distance Validation
- Secant-Ogive-Cylinder — Static and Magnus Aerodynamic Coefficients
- 3D Transonic Wing — ONERA M6 RANS Validation
- 3D High-Lift Trap Wing — HiLiftPW-1 Configuration 1 Validation