Airfoil design and optimization methods: Recent progress at NLR

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-228

  Soemarwoto, B I ^a   Labrujere Th E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^b Dept of Theoretical Aerodynamics ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airfoil optimization; Drag reduction; Euler; Multi point design; Navier Stokes; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE INVISCID FLOW MODEL; EULER EQUATIONS; MULTI-POINT OPTIMIZATION DESIGN;

AERODYNAMICS;

AEROFOIL; OPTIMIZATION; SHAPE;

EID: 0344132030     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990530)30:2<217::AID-FLD830>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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