Turboprop nacelle optimization using automated surface and grid generation and coarse-grain parallelization

14th Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1011-1021

  Fejtek, I ^a   Barfoot, T ^a   Lo, G ^a  

^a De Havilland Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLENDING; MESH GENERATION;

AERODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN VARIABLES; GRID GENERATION; HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARALLELIZATIONS; SURFACE BLENDING; SURFACE GENERATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 84964260542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-2504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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