Using an adjoint approach to eliminate mesh sensitivities in computational design

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15493-15502

  Nielsen, Eric J ^a,b,c   Park, Michael A ^a,b,c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MS 128 ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; DESIGN VARIABLES; MESH SENSITIVITIES; SURFACE GRIDS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; LINEARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 30744477712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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