The main objective of this work is to present an adjoint-based methodology to address combined optimization of drag force and cooling flow rate of an industrial vehicle. In order to cope with cooling effect, the volumetric flow rate is treated through a newly introduced cost function and the corresponding adjoint source term is derived. Also an alternative strategy is presented to tackle aerodynamic vehicle design improvement that relies on a so-called indirect force computation. The overall optimization is treated as a Multi-Objective problem and an original approach, called Optimize Both Favor One (OBFO), is introduced that allows selective emphasis on one or another objective without resorting to artificial cost function balancing. Finally, comparative results are presented to demonstrate the merit of the proposed methodology.
Combined Drag and Cooling Optimization of a Car Vehicle with an Adjoint-Based Approach
Sae Technical Papers
WCX World Congress Experience ; 2018
2018-04-03
Conference paper
English
Combined Drag and Cooling Optimization of a Car Vehicle with an Adjoint-Based Approach
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