A survey of computational methods for subsonic and transonic aerodynamic design

A survey of computational methods for subsonic and transonic aerodynamic design

Slooff, J.W.

National Aerospace Laboratory NLR

1984-07-03

An overview is provided of computational methods that can be used in solving the design problem of aerodynamics; i.e. the problem of finding the detailed shape of (parts of) configurations of which the gross geometric characteristics have already been determined in a preliminary, overall design process, and that, subject to certain constraints, have to meet given aerodynamic requirements. Attention is focussed on methods for solving the classical inverse problem of aerodynamics and on approaches using optimization techniques. Both methods limited to subsonic flow utilizing panel method technology as well as methods based on finite difference/volume formulations for compressible, transonic flow are covered. In conclusion a discussion is presented of the relative merits of the various computational approaches to the problem of aerodynamic design

computational fluid dynamics
panel methods (fluid mechanics)
inverse mode computation
potential flow
aerodynamic configurations
subsonic flow
transonic flow
optimization
pressure distribution
Dirichlet problem
airfoils
boundary value problems
iterative solutions
Neumann problems
algorithms

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