Insensitive functionals, inconsistent gradients, spurious minima, and regularized functionals in flow optimization problems

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 171-185

  Burkardt, John ^a   Gunzburger, Max ^a   Peterson, Janet ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow control; Flow optimization; Inconsistent gradients; Insensitive functionals; Regularization; Spurious minima

Indexed keywords

FLOW OPTIMIZATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLOW CONTROL; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036668237     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618560290034663     Document Type: Article

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