Mesh deformation strategy optimized by the adjoint method on unstructured meshes

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2885-2896

  Yang, Zhi ^a,b   Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; LINEAR-ELASTICITY; SKEWNESS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ELASTIC MODULI; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION;

EID: 38049152610     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.30592     Document Type: Article

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