Reduction of the adjoint gradient formula in the continuous limit

41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Jameson, Antony ^a   Kim, Sangho ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; WINGS;

AERODYNAMIC SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTINUOUS ADJOINT METHODS; DRAG MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; GRADIENT EQUATIONS; SURFACE INTEGRALS; WING CONFIGURATIONS; WING-FUSELAGE CONFIGURATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 85088183036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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