Verification & Validation
This manual documents the verification and validation (V&V) of the Luminary physics solvers. Its purpose is to demonstrate, on a growing library of well-characterized problems, that the solver computes correctly (verification, agreement with analytic and manufactured solutions and established numerical benchmarks) and that it predicts physical reality (validation, agreement with experimental measurement).
Each case is reproducible end to end: the geometry, mesh, and solver configuration are recorded alongside the results, and every reported quantity is compared against an authoritative reference, an analytic solution, a digitized published figure, or experimental data, with the source cited. Cases are organized by physical regime so that related problems sit together, and a coverage matrix summarizes which solver capabilities each case exercises.
Flagship benchmarks
Industry-standard prediction workshops Luminary entered and published on, recreated here from our peer-reviewed and public submissions.
NASA CRM-HL: High-Lift Prediction Workshop 5
DrivAer: AutoCFD4 Case 2 (DDES)
NASA CRM: AIAA Drag Prediction Workshop 6
Generic Truck Utility (GTU): DDES
Capability coverage
16 of 16 tracked solver features exercised across 45 case(s). Click any feature (a column header below, or a keyword on a case) to filter the cases.
Cases
Inviscid 7 cases
Laminar 15 cases
RANS (turbulent) 18 cases
DES / LES (scale-resolving) 1 case
No cases match this feature.