Numerical evaluation and optimization of low speed wind tunnel contractions

Collection of Technical Papers - 18th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 71-85

  Doolan, Con J ^a,b,c   Morgans, Rick C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b School Of Mechanical Engineering   (Australia)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POTENTIAL FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY; TUNNEL CONTRACTIONS;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 35648932402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-3827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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