First-order model management with variable-fidelity physics applied to multi-element airfoil optimization

8th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Alexandrov, N M ^a   Nielsen, E J ^a   Lewis, R M ^a   Anderson, W K ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic optimization; Airfoil designapproximation concepts; Approximation management; Model management; Nonlinear programming; Surrogate optimization; Variable fidelity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894338985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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