An adjoint-based Navier–Stokes design and optimization method for two-dimensional multi-element high-lift configurations is derived and presented. The compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations are used as a flow model together with the Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model to account for high Reynolds number effects. When a viscous continuous adjoint formulation is used, the necessary ...

DESIREH stands for “Design, Simulation and Flight Reynolds Number testing for advanced High Lift Solutions”. This EC-funded project is aimed to improve the aerodynamic design and simulation methodology of high-lift systems. The investigations made include the acceleration of CFD simulations, the improvement of enhanced optical measurement methods in cryogenic environment, and the assessment of ...

Gas lift is a costly, however indispensable means to recover oil from high-depth reservoirs that entails solving the gas-lift optimization problem, GOP, often in response to variations in the dynamics of the reservoir and economic oscillations. GOP can be cast as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem whose integer variables decide which oil wells should produce, while the continuous var...

Similar to random sea waves, forces on the offshore structures due to waves are random. These forces can be mainly divided into two components, namely, inline forces and transverse or lift forces. The random nature of lift forces is more complicated than that of inline forces and both should be combined for design purposes. In the present paper, two different approaches have been used to determ...

An adjoint-based Navier-Stokes design and optimization method for two-dimensional multi-element high-lift configurations is derived and presented. The compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are used as a flow model together with the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model to account for high Reynolds number effects. Using a viscous continuous adjoint formulation, the necessary ...