Implementation of a continuous adjoint for topology optimization of ducted flows

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 407-413

  Othmer, Carsten ^a,d   De Villiers, Eugene ^b,e   Weller, Henry G ^c,f  

^a VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

^b Icon CG   (United Kingdom)

^c OpenCFD Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d CAE Method Development   (Germany)

^e Open Source Services Devision

^f Open FOAM ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

AIRDUCT MANIFOLD; DUCTED FLOWS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 35648994286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-3947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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