Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
16S
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
16T
Transonic Wind Tunnel
ADP
Advanced Ducted Propulsor
AEDC
Arnold Engineering Development Center
AFLC
Air Force Logistics Command
AFMC
Air Force Materiel Command
AFSC
Air Force Systems Command
APTU
Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit
ASD
Aeronautical Systems Division
ASEB
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
ASTF
Aero-Propulsion Systems Test Facility
BPR
bypass ratio
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
CPU
central processing unit
DNS
direct numerical simulation
ETF
Engine Test Facilities
FY
fiscal year
GAO
General Accounting Office
GE
General Electric Company
ICBM
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
IHPTET
Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology
I&M
improvement and modernization
L/D
lift-to-drag ratio
LES
large eddy simulation
LFC
laminar flow control
LRPT
Long-Range Planning Team
MFLOP
millions of floating point computer operations per second
MHD
magnetohydrodynamics
MW
million words of computer memory
NACA
National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASP
National Aero-Space Plane
NRC
National Research Council
NTF
National Transonic Facility
PES
plenum evacuation system
P&W
Pratt & Whitney
PWT
Propulsion Wind Tunnels
R
degrees Rankine
RANS
Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes
RBA
Reimbursable budget authority
