CFL3D (Version 5.0) User's Manual
Downloadable Files

There is no manual available for CFL3D Version 6. We recommend that you use the Version 5 manual given here in combination with the information on the New Features page.

• Entire 354-page manual as a tar file:

  CFL3D Version 5.0 Manual (6.2Mb)

  The file un-tars as a directory called V5Manual, with all 26 individual-chapter pdf files below, plus the title-page file and the corrections file. Last update 2/5/08; the tar file is updated when there is any change to one or more of the individual files).

  Note: virtually all of the information in the Version 5 manual is applicable to Version 6; where differences occur, they are noted in the Summary of Input File Differences section of the New Features page.

• By chapter (as individual pdf files):

  Title Page
  Table of Contents
  Nomenclature
  CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  CHAPTER 2 Getting Started
  CHAPTER 3 Input Parameters (last significant update 1/16/04)
  CHAPTER 4 Nondimensionalization (minor update 1/19/00)
  CHAPTER 5 File Formats (last significant update 11/13/07, minor update 2/5/08)
  CHAPTER 6 Boundary Conditions (last significant update 4/23/99, minor update 8/30/01)
  CHAPTER 7 Convergence Acceleration (minor update 12/13/07)
  CHAPTER 8 Time-Accurate Computations
  CHAPTER 9 Test Cases (minor update 9/21/99)
  CHAPTER 10 Troubleshooting
  APPENDIX A - Governing Equations
  APPENDIX B - Time Advancement (minor update 10/18/02)
  APPENDIX C - Spatial Discretization (minor update 2/7/00)
  APPENDIX D - Multigrid Algorithm
  APPENDIX E - Primitive Variables
  APPENDIX F - Generalized Coordinates
  APPENDIX G - Force and Moment Calculations
  APPENDIX H - Turbulence Model Equations (last significant update 1/17/06)
  APPENDIX I - Angle Definitions
  APPENDIX J - Subroutine Listing
  APPENDIX K - Version Differences between 5.0 and 4.1
  CFL3D Papers
  References
  index (minor update 7/29/02)

• List of corrections made to Edition 2 of the manual since September 1997:

  Corrections made to the manual (last update 2/5/08) (these corrections have already been included in the above files)

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Last Updated: February 5, 2008

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