Probabilistic approach to free-form airfoil shape optimization under uncertainty

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1764-1772

  Huyse, Luc ^a   Padula, Sharon L ^b   Lewis, R Michael ^c   Li, Wu ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0036715119     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1881     Document Type: Article

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