A general and extensible unstructured mesh adjoint method

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 401-413

  Burdyshaw, Chad E ^a,b,c   Anderson, W Kyle ^a,b,c  

^a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga   (United States)

^b UT SimCenter at Chattanooga   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION (CTSE); FUNCTION CODE; FUNCTIONAL SENSITIVITIES; UNSTRUCTURED MESH;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 26444576842     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.15932     Document Type: Article

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