Parametric design of aircraft geometry using partial differential equations

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 479-486

  Athanasopoulos, Michael ^a   Ugail, Hassan ^a   Castro, Gabriela González ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft design; Parametric design; PDE surfaces

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ENGINES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; DESIGN;

AIRCRAFT DESIGN; AIRCRAFT GEOMETRIES; AIRCRAFTS; CHARACTER LINES; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; INITIAL CURVES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETRIC DESIGN; PDE METHODS; PDE SURFACES; REAL TIME; SURFACE GENERATIONS;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 62949160309     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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