High-performance airfoils for transonic flows of Bethe–Zel’dovich–Thompson fluids are constructed using a robust and efficient Euler flow solver coupled with a multi-objective genetic algorithm. Bethe–Zel’dovich– Thompson fluids are characterized by negative values of the fundamental derivative of gasdynamics for a range of temperatures and pressures in the vapor phase, which leads to nonclassi...

An algorithm for computing transonic flow fields about fighter-type aircraft is described in the paper. The compressible Euler equations are solved numerically using a vertex-based, finite volume multigrid scheme. The space around the aircraft is discretized with a single-block H-0 mesh which is generated by the union of separate Omeshes around successive cross sections of the aircraft. The dis...