Several government/commercial oo-the-shelf modular software packages have been combined to perform static aeroelastic analysis and aerodynamic optimization of a generic high-speed civil transport, with the eventual goal of performing high-delity multidisciplinary optimization (MDO). Results obtained for the aeroelastic analysis and aerodynamic optimization cases are consistent with expectations...

Aerodynamic shape optimization based on high-fidelity models is a computational intensive endeavor. The majority of the computational time is spent in the flow solver, and in the gradient calculation. In this paper, we present two approaches for reducing the overall computational cost of the optimization. The techniques are tested using the Common Research Model wing benchmark defined by the Ae...

This paper examines the viability of using the combination of the vortex lattice method for aerodynamic performance prediction with a genetic algorithm for the optimization of the aerodynamic performance of horizontal axis wind turbine blades. The work described in this paper includes the adaptation of a vortex lattice code designed to predict propeller performance to wind turbine performance p...

This lecture deals with the application of numerical optimization for aerodynamic design of high-lift systems, which is a multi-objective constraint design problem. The applied mathematical fundamentals of numerical optimization are briefly outlined. A description of the design targets and constraints for high-lift wings is given, followed by a detailed analysis of the properties of the flow ca...

Aerodynamic design optimization of an airfoil for the Mars exploration airplane has been demonstrated by using an evolutionary algorithm. The adaptive range genetic algorithm is used for efficient and robust design optimization. Two-dimensional Navier-Stokes solver is used for accurate aerodynamic performance evaluation. The present computation is parallelized on the SX-6 vector computers in In...

With the improving capabilities of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) on predicting aerodynamic performance, these tools are now being increasingly used for aerodynamic design optimization in the aerospace industry. In this paper, an automated optimization framework is presented to address inviscid aerodynamic design problems. Key aspects of this framework include the use of the continuous adj...

The use of multidisciplinary optimization techniques in aerospace vehicle design often is limited because of the signi cant computational expense incurred in the analysis of the vehicle and its many systems In response to this di culty a variable complexity modeling approach involving the use of re ned and computationally expensive models together with simple and computationally inexpensive mod...

A practical three-dimensional shape optimization for aerodynamic design of a transonic wing has been performed using Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). Because EAs coupled with aerodynamic function evaluations require enormous computational time, Numerical Wind Tunnel (NWT) located at National Aerospace Laboratory in Japan has been utilized based on the simple master-slave concept. Parallel process...

In this study, efficient global optimization (EGO) with a multi-fidelity hybrid surrogate model for multi-objective optimization is proposed to solve multi-objective real-world design problems. In the proposed approach, a design exploration is carried out assisted by surrogate models, which are constructed by adding a local deviation estimated by the kriging method and a global model approximat...

Aerodynamic shape optimization involves designing the most efficient shapes of bodies that move through fluids. An optimization algorithm perturbs the shape of an airfoil until it finds the shape which best exhibits a given design objective. For an inverse design technique, this objective is a prescribed aerodynamic distribution, usually the surface pressure distribution. Liebeck pressure distr...