Research & Technology Directorate
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems Division
Inlet Branch
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| NASA Glenn Research Center Research & Technology Directorate Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems Division Inlet Branch |
| Email: | towne@nasa.gov | |
| Phone: | (216) 433-5851 | |
| Fax: | (216) 433-7500 |
Serve as the Glenn technical leader for the NPARC Alliance Development Team, and on the Technical Steering Committee for the development of Wind-US. Maintain the central workstation repository for Wind-US, and its associated utilities, for NASA Glenn users. Serve as workstation administrator for the Internet Version Management System (IVMS) server, used to distribute Wind-US to users and developers. Coordinate with work being done at AEDC and Boeing.
Serve as Task Leader for the Documentation and Testing task in the Wind-US development effort. Continue development and maintenance of the Wind-US code documentation, plus its associated pre-processors, post-processors, and utilities.
Serve as focal point for documentation in the
CFD General Notation System (CGNS)
project 
.
Maintain and expand as appropriate the
CGNS-related
documentation.
Coordinate with work done by CGNS developers at various sites.
Provide CFD and technical oversight support to focused and base programs, as well as other NASA, government, and industry research efforts.
Serve as System Security Representative for the Inlet Branch.
The NPARC Alliance is a formal partnership between the
NASA Glenn Research
Center and the
USAF Arnold Engineering
Development Center ,
with additional strong support from
The Boeing Company
.
The mission of the NPARC Alliance is to provide an applications-oriented
CFD tool for U. S. industry, government, and academia,
currently centered on the Wind-US Navier-Stokes code.
The three main tasks of the Alliance are user support, code development,
and validation.
Currently, I serve as the Glenn Team leader for the Development effort,
and as Task Leader for the Documentation and Testing task in the Wind-US
development effort.
Most of my work involves the development of user-level and developer-level
documentation for
Wind-US, in both PDF (via LaTeX) and HTML form.
The purpose of the CFD General Notation System (CGNS) project is to provide a standard for recording and recovering computer data associated with the numerical solution of the equations of fluid dynamics. The intent is to facilitate the exchange of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) data between sites, between applications codes, and across computing platforms, and to stabilize the archiving of CFD data.
The CGNS system consists of two parts: (1) a standard format for recording the data, and (2) software that reads, writes, and modifies data in that format. The format is a conceptual entity established by the documentation; the software is a physical product supplied to enable developers to access and produce data recorded in that format. All CGNS software is completely free and open to anyone.
Most of my work involves the maintenance, and expansion as appropriate, of the CGNS-related documentation.
Plotc is a two-dimensional plotting program with PostScript
output.
It started as a simple tool for my own use, has grown over time, and now
several others at Glenn have found it useful.
A special-case version called plotc_p3d may also be used to
create two-dimensional line plots from Plot3d-style xyz and q
files.
A set of routines dealing with various files created by and/or used with
the NPARC Navier-Stokes code.
A set of shell scripts that allow users to interact with a remote
system, which has the real NQS (Network Queueing System) software
installed, from a workstation that doesn't.
A few things that didn't seem to fit anywhere else.
Last updated 8 May 2003