Summary Multi-disciplinary analysis is necessary to reach physically meaningful optimum designs. For aero-structural shape optimization this means coupling two disciplines – aerodynamics and structural mechanics. In this paper the sensitivity evaluation for aerodynamic shape optimization is considered, while taking into account the static aeroelastic effects introduced by the variations in the aerodynamic forces, which are associated with changes in the aerodynamic shape. Due to the high computational cost of a finite difference evaluation step for such a coupled problem, an extension of the adjoint approach to aeroelasticity is necessary for an efficient calculation of the sensitivities. The theory, implementation, validation and application of such a method in the multi-disciplinary design optimization (MDO) context described above, is presented.
Adjoint Methods for Coupled CFD-CSM Optimization
MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt - German Initiatives for Aerodynamic Simulation and Optimization in Aircraft Design ; 4 ; 237-246
2009-01-01
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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