Computational fluid dynamics driven optimization of blended wing body aircraft

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2736-2745

  Peigin, Sergey ^a,c,d   Epstein, Boris ^b,d,e  

^a ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^c Engineering Division   (Israel)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Computer Science Department ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS; NAVIER-STOKES COMPUTATIONS; NONLINEAR CONSTRAINTS;

AIRCRAFT; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DRAG; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 33751217110     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.19757     Document Type: Article

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