Tactical agile maneuverability at high angles of attack for modern military aircraft is hindered by loss-of-performance due to aerodynamic interactions between close-proximity vortices, shocks and the airframe. Scale-resolving methods are key enablers for understanding the complex flow-physics and gain insights needed to aim in future development of such platforms. Recent, NATO Science and Technology (STO) efforts AVT-316 and AVT-390 focused on experimental study of a generic missile in transonic flight conditions to demonstrate the “break” in rolling moment seen on such platforms at high total angles of incidence (typically over 15deg.). This animation is part from a validation study using WMLES for one such configuration in transonic flow conditions using Volcano ScaLES. The WMLES accurately captures the break in rolling moment which has eluded many RANS solvers over the past few decades. Simulations using 761M cells are completed in roughly twenty-four hours using a single server with 8x NVIDIA L40S cards.
