Aerodynamic design optimization on unstructured meshes using the Navier-Stokes equations

AIAA journal

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1411-1419

  Nielsen, Eric J ^a   Anderson, W Kyle ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0033225820     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.640     Document Type: Article

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