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Traditionally, aerodynamic problems are investigated through:
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1. Experimental studies – accurate but time-consuming and costly due to setup design and instrumentation.
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2. Analytical studies – elegant but limited to highly simplified versions of real-world problems.
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2. Analytical studies – provide closed-form solutions that offer exact mathematical results and deep physical insight, but are generally limited to highly idealized or simplified versions of real-world problems.
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3. Numerical simulations – increasingly popular since the advent of modern computing, offering flexibility and control over complex configurations.
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Numerical approaches can be broadly classified into:
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- **High-fidelity solvers** that resolve the Navier–Stokes equations with all flow physics, and
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- **Reduced-order models** based on simplifying assumptions that retain key aerodynamic behavior at a fraction of the computational cost.
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**PANKH** falls into the second category. It solves the **Laplace equation** under **potential flow assumptions**, making it ideal for low-speed, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational flows.
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**PANKH** falls into the second category of numerical studies. It solves the **Laplace equation** under **potential flow assumptions**, making it ideal for low-speed, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational flows.
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High-fidelity CFD solvers demand substantial computational resources — often running for **days on HPC clusters** across multiple nodes and cores. Moreover, **commercial CFD packages** are expensive, opaque “black-box” systems, making benchmark validations and modifications challenging.
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