Discrete adjoint-based design optimization of unsteady turbulent flows on dynamic unstructured grids

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1195-1206

  Nielsen, Eric J ^a,d   Diskin, Boris ^b,e   Yamaleev, Nail K ^c,f  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Aerospace Technologist   (United States)

^e University of Virginia   (United States)

^f Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT SYSTEM; ADJOINT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; ADJOINTS; BACKWARD DIFFERENCE; COMPUTATIONAL CODES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC MESH; ON DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY DERIVATIVES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TILT ROTOR; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-INTEGRATION SCHEME; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

OPTIMIZATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 77952676272     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050035     Document Type: Article

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