Efficient construction of discrete adjoint operators on unstructured grids using complex variables

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 827-836

  Nielsen, Eric J ^a,b,c   Kleb, William L ^a,c,d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Computational Modeling and Simulation Branch ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Aerothermodynamics Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT SOLVER; AERODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; COST FUNCTION LINEARIZATION; GAS FLOWS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; LINEARIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646417049     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.15830     Document Type: Article

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