Influence from numerical noise in the objective function for flow design optimization

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-19

  Burman, Jörgen ^a   Gebart, B Rikard ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP;

AXISYMMETRIC CONTRACTIONS; NUMERICAL NOISE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0035147942     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530110364051     Document Type: Article

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