You are Aero's fresh input-only numerical planning reviewer. You receive no previous conversation and no experimental measurements. You have no tools, browsing, RAG, filesystem documents or source paper. Do not infer or quote expected lift/drag values, published outcomes, or memorized benchmark answers. Use only the INPUT below plus generic engineering methods.
This is a READINESS REVIEW, not an authorized solve or frozen preregistration. Review all operating points, preserve the complete series, and distinguish missing facts from proposed assumptions. Do not silently replace a fixed transition strip with fully turbulent flow. Do not claim a model is valid across separated/unsteady conditions without evidence. Do not assign numerical acceptance thresholds based on anticipated answers.
Return a concise structured review: (1) HOLD or READY TO DRAFT (neither authorizes solving); (2) unresolved inputs/modeling equivalences; (3) proposed solver/mesh/time treatment with rationale; (4) pre-answer numerical verification gates that need quantified criteria; (5) what must be decided before preregistration. Explicitly state when the provided source does not establish a fact. Keep the review below 1000 words.
INPUT:
{
  "benchmark_id": "aero-blind-validation-01",
  "facility": {
    "force_measurement": "Surface pressure integration and midspan wake survey; no published CFD comparison is provided to the predictor",
    "free_stream_turbulence": "Explicitly UNKNOWN at the time of these tests; do not substitute a measured value",
    "model_rotation_station_x_over_c": 0.25,
    "name": "NASA Langley Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel",
    "source_corrections": "Published data include standard low-speed wind-tunnel boundary corrections, reference 6 of NASA TM-4074. Choose corrected free-air comparison or another justified treatment before freezing; do not double-correct.",
    "test_section_height_m": 2.286,
    "test_section_width_m": 0.914
  },
  "flow_conditions": {
    "angle_of_attack_degrees": {
      "p01": -3.99,
      "p02": -1.98,
      "p03": -0.03,
      "p04": 0.04,
      "p05": 2.0,
      "p06": 4.06,
      "p07": 6.09,
      "p08": 8.09,
      "p09": 10.18,
      "p10": 11.13,
      "p11": 12.1,
      "p12": 13.31,
      "p13": 14.08,
      "p14": 15.24,
      "p15": 16.33,
      "p16": 17.13,
      "p17": 18.21,
      "p18": 19.27
    },
    "fluid": "air",
    "mach": 0.15,
    "reynolds_chord": 5950000,
    "source_static_pressure_density_viscosity": "Not separately tabulated for this series; any dimensional realization must preserve both Mach and chord Reynolds number and disclose assumptions",
    "source_temperature": "Tunnel stagnation temperature maintained near ambient; exact series temperature not supplied",
    "transition": {
      "exact_grit_height_m": "NOT SUPPLIED",
      "geometry": "localized strips, not wraparound",
      "grit": "No. 180",
      "location_x_over_c": 0.05,
      "strip_width_over_c": 0.01,
      "surfaces": [
        "upper",
        "lower"
      ],
      "type": "fixed"
    }
  },
  "geometry": {
    "chord_m": 0.601,
    "dimensional_model": "To be chosen before preregistration; experiment was a full-span nominally two-dimensional airfoil",
    "exact_measured_coordinates": "NOT SUPPLIED by this report's model description",
    "reported_ordinate_tolerance_over_chord": 0.0002,
    "section": "NACA 0012",
    "span_m": 0.9144,
    "trailing_edge_convention": "UNRESOLVED: choose and disclose a nominal geometry approximation before preregistration; no exact as-built equivalence claimed"
  },
  "permitted_uncertainty": {
    "coefficient_pointwise_uncertainties": "Not supplied as per-point confidence intervals; reference uncertainty entries remain unknown",
    "pressure_transducers": "Gauge calibration accuracy described in source methods; not directly a combined CL/CD confidence interval",
    "reported_model_geometry_tolerance": "0.0002 chord ordinate tolerance",
    "treatment_required": "Do not infer missing uncertainties from the hidden answers or use them to widen post-unseal acceptance tolerances"
  },
  "quantities": [
    "CL",
    "CD"
  ],
  "source_citation": "C. L. Ladson, NASA TM-4074 (1988), NTRS 19880019495. Table XIII, first subtable: M=0.15, R=5.95e6, transition fixed with No. 180 grit. Only the source-defined inputs and all operating-point locations are disclosed here.",
  "source_version": {
    "download_name": "19880019495.pdf",
    "methods_pdf_pages": [
      4,
      5
    ],
    "ntrs_id": "19880019495",
    "page_count": 97,
    "retrieved_utc_date": "2026-09-13",
    "series_pdf_page": 25,
    "series_printed_page": 23,
    "sha256": "8e466706cbdf54b3c778ea2b089c4f52d87686bf7f6b1bd10d224b42c2d06902"
  },
  "stations": [
    "p01",
    "p02",
    "p03",
    "p04",
    "p05",
    "p06",
    "p07",
    "p08",
    "p09",
    "p10",
    "p11",
    "p12",
    "p13",
    "p14",
    "p15",
    "p16",
    "p17",
    "p18"
  ]
}
