Formulation and multigrid solution of the discrete adjoint for optimization problems on unstructured meshes

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6557-6568

  Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Dept of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MESH DEFORMATION; MESH MOTION EQUATION; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS) EQUATIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 30744446251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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