Accurate models for the prediction of ship airwake flowfields are critical to the development
of realistic flight simulation tools for aircraft carrier launch and recovery operations. The
accurate computation of the ship airwake can be very challenging due to the complexity of
the ship geometry, the size of and difficulty in generating a suitable computational mesh, and
the large range of length and time scales present in the unsteady flowfield. The present
paper investigates the sensitivity of the airwake solution to several modeling parameters …