Development of an efficient aerodynamic shape optimization framework

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2373-2384

  Kim, Jong Eun ^a   Rao, Vinay N ^a   Koomullil, Roy P ^a   Ross, Doug H ^a   Soni, Bharat K ^a   Shih, Alan M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic shape optimization; Flow analysis; Optimization toolkit; Parametric grid generator; Surrogate based optimization

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATION; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PULSATILE FLOW;

AERODYNAMIC SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; BLACK BOXES; COMPLEX CONFIGURATIONS; FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW SOLVERS; GRID GENERATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW SOLVERS; NUMBER OF GRIDS; OBJECT-ORIENTED OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMIZATION LOOPS; OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS; PARAMETRIC DESIGNS; PARAMETRIC GRID GENERATOR; SURROGATE-BASED OPTIMIZATION; USER-SPECIFIC CODES;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 63449134568     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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