The numerical simulation of the Euler equations of Fluid Dynamics has
been these past few years a challenging problem both for research
scientists and aerospace engineers. The increasing interest of more
realistic models such as the Euler equations originates in Aerodynamics
and also Aerothermics where aerospace applications such as military
aircrafts and also space vehicles require accurate and efficient Euler
solvers (which can be extended to more complicated modelisations
including non-equilibrium chemistry) for su- personic and hypersonic
flows at high angles of attack and Mach number regimes involving strong
shocks and vorticity. This book contains the proceedings of the GAMM
Workshop on the Numerical Simu- lation of Compressible Euler Flows. that
W: LS held at INRIA, Rocquencourt (France), on June 10-13, 1986. The
purpose of this event was to compare in terms of accuracy and efficiency
several codes for solving compressible inviscid, mainly steady, Euler
flows. This workshop was a sequel of the GAMM workshop held in 1979 in
Stockholm; this time, though, because of the present strong activity in
numerical methods for the Euler equat.ions, the full-potential approach
was not included. Since 1979, other Eulpr workshops have been organised,
sev- eral of them focussed on airfoil calculations; however, many
recently derived methods were not presented at these workshops, because,
among other reasons, the methods were not far enough developed, or had
not been applied to flow problems of sufficient complexity. In fact, the
1986 GAMM workshop scored very high as regards to the novelty of
methods.
