* Assistant Professor † Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. Corresponding Author. Phone/fax: (814) 863-7136/4745. Email: [email protected]. Member AIAA. ‡ Post-doctoral Research Fellow § Associate Professor and AIAA Member Abstract Multidisciplinary design instances arise when the performance of large-scale, complex systems can be...

1. Abstract Gas turbine engines for aerospace applications have evolved dramatically over the last 50 years through the constant pursuit for better specific fuel consumption, higher thrust-to-weight ratio, lower noise and emissions all while maintaining reliability and affordability. This paper addresses one facet of this inter-disciplinary optimization problem – optimal design of a turbine bla...

Published conference paper Gilkeson, C.A., Toropov, V.V., Thompson, H.M., Wilson, M.C.T., Foxley, N.A. and Gaskell, P.H. (2008) Aerodynamic shape optimization of a low drag fairing for small livestock trailers. In: 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference. Proceedings. 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, 10 12 September 2008, Vic...

OPTIMAL SHAPE DESIGN OF AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS: A NEWTON-KRYLOV APPROACH Marian Nemec Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Aerospace Science and Engineering University of Toronto 2003 Optimal shape design of aerodynamic configurations is a challenging problem due to the nonlinear effects of complex flow features such as shock waves, boundary layers, ...

A gradient-based Newton–Krylov algorithm is presented for the aerodynamic shape optimization of singleand multi-element airfoil configurations. The flow is governed by the compressible Navier–Stokes equations in conjunction with a one-equation transport turbulence model. The preconditioned generalized minimal residual method is applied to solve the discrete-adjoint equation, which leads to a fa...

These Lecture Notes review the formulation and application of optimization techniques based on control theory for aerodynamic shape design in both inviscid and viscous compressible flow. The theory is applied to a system defined by the partial differential equations of the flow, with the boundary shape acting as the control. The Frechet derivative of the cost function is determined via the solu...

Noise generated by turbulent boundary layers near the trailing edge of lifting surfaces continues to pose a challenge for many applications. Much of the previous work on this topic has focused on development of accurate computational methods for the prediction of trailing edge noise. For instance, aeroacoustic calculations of the flow over an airfoil using large-eddy simulation (LES) and aeroac...