Recent improvements in aerodynamic design optimization on unstructured meshes

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Nielsen, Eric J ^a   Anderson, W Kyle ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; MESH GENERATION;

AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE ADJOINT METHODS; IMPROVED CONVERGENCE; LARGE-SCALE AERODYNAMICS; SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING; SHARED MEMORY APPROACH; UNSTRUCTURED GRID METHODS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 85074540803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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