ABSTRACT
Although modern digital computer technology has wrought a clear revolution in our ability to compute predictions for complex engineering problems, e.g., via computational fluid dynamics (CFD), it remains common for such analyses to require days to months for completion. For engineering analysts who must complete more approximate analyses in hours or days, it is disturbing that computer technology has not been more widely applied to important fundamental, if relatively simple, engineering calculations. Perhaps the situation exists because engineering analysts experienced in such computations have not had the opportunity (funding) to program their capabilities, or to “clean up” programs they already have to warrant 304distribution, or to prepare the necessary documentation. Thus each new analyst entering the field “reinvents the wheel” rather than building on previous work. This sixtieth anniversary celebration symposium of one who has made major contributions to both fundamental and complex analysis of gas dynamics and turbomachinery, Prof. Lakshminarayana, has provided the opportunity to prepare and present documentation of a computer code for one such fundamental, if modest, engineering analysis tool.
