Improving genetic algorithm efficiency with an artificial neural network for optimization of low Reynolds number airfoils

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bellman, Miles ^a   Straccia, Joseph ^a   Morgan, Brandon ^a   Maschmeyer, Katherine ^a   Agarwal, Ramesh ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NEURAL NETWORKS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ALGORITHM EFFICIENCY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER AIRFOILS; OPTIMAL AIRFOILS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE FLUENT;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78549277789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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