Aerodynamic multiobjective design exploration of a flapping airfoil using a Navier-Stokes solver

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-270

  Oyama, Akira ^a,c   Okabe, Yoshiyuki ^b,d   Shimoyama, Koji ^b,e   Fujii, Kozo ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Department of Space Transportation Engineering ^*  (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; DESIGN OBJECTIVES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FLAPPING AIRFOILS; FLAPPING-WING MICRO AIR VEHICLES; FLOW MECHANISMS; LIFT COEFFICIENTS; MULTI OBJECTIVES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGNS; MULTIOBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVERS; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PARETO-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; POWER COEFFICIENTS; POWER MINIMIZATIONS; REAL-WORLD DESIGNS; SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS; TIME-AVERAGED; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE VEHICLES; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DESIGN; DRAG; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 63049089811     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.35992     Document Type: Article

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