A methodology for the development of discrete adjoint solvers using automatic differentiation tools

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 307-327

  Marta, A C ^a   Mader, C A ^b   Martins, J R R A ^b   Van Der Weide, E ^a   Alonso, J J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjoint solver; Automatic differentiation; Discrete adjoint; Gradient based optimization; Partial differential equations; Sensitivities

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949020013     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618560701678647     Document Type: Article

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