Aerodynamic design optimization on unstructured grids with a continuous adjoint formulation

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 28, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 443-480

  Anderson, W Kyle ^a   Venkatakrishnan, V ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISCOUS FLOW;

DISCRETIZATION METHOD; GEOMETRIC SINGULARITIES; INVISCID FLOW; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0032809870     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(98)00041-3     Document Type: Article

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