aerodynamic shape optimization of supersonic projectile fins

AIAA 2002-2838 Aerodynamic Shape Optimization for Supersonic Aircraft

Introduction onsidering the remarkable developments in many high technology fields during the past few decades, it is surprising that virtually no change in the speed of commercial air transportation has occurred since the introduction of the Boeing 707 in the late 1950s. Instead, the aging Concorde continues to fly at supersonic speeds for an extremely limited market and all other commercial a...

Efficient Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

Since the present author first became involved in computational fluid dynamics, around 1970, the landscape has changed dramatically. At that time, panel methods had just come into use, and the world’s fastest super computer, the Control data 6600, had only 131000 words of memory (about 1 megabyte). Prior to the break-through of Murman and Cole [1970], no viable algorithms for computing transoni...

Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Supersonic Wings by Adaptive Range Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms

This paper describes an application of Adaptive Range Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms (ARMOGAs) to aerodynamic wing optimization. The objectives are to minimize transonic and supersonic drag coefficients, as well as the bending and twisting moments of the wings for the supersonic airplane. A total of 72 design variables are categorized to describe the wing’s planform, thickness distribution, ...

Aerodynamic shape optimization of supersonic aircraft configurations via an adjoint formulation on distributed memory parallel computers

This work describes the application of a control theory-based aerodynamic shape optimization method to the problem of supersonic aircraft design. The design process is greatly accelerated through the use of both control theory and a parallel implementation on distributed memory computers. Control theory is employed to derive the adjoint differential equations whose solution allows for the evalu...

Advances in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

The focus of CFD applications has shifted to aerodynamic design. This shift has been mainly motivated by the availability of high performance computing platforms and by the development of new and efficient analysis and design algorithms. In particular automatic design procedures, which use CFD combined with gradient-based optimization techniques, have had a significant impact on the design proc...

Unsteady Aerodynamic Simulations of a Finned Projectile at a Supersonic Speed With Jet Interaction