Adjoint sensitivity computations for an embedded-boundary Cartesian mesh method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2724-2742

  Nemec, Marian ^a,b   Aftosmis, Michael J ^b  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Aerodynamic shape optimization; Cartesian mesh

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MESH GENERATION; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

ADJOINT SENSITIVITIES; ADJOINTS; AERODYNAMIC SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; CARTESIAN MESH; CUT CELLS; DISCRETE FLOW; EMBEDDED BOUNDARY; NEW APPROACHES; SENSITIVITY COMPUTATION; SHAPE SENSITIVITIES;

HYPERSONIC FLOW;

EID: 38049040327     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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