Print Email Facebook Twitter A survey of computational methods for subsonic and transonic aerodynamic design Title A survey of computational methods for subsonic and transonic aerodynamic design Author Slooff, J.W. Institution National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Date 1984-07-03 Abstract 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 Subject computational fluid dynamicspanel methods (fluid mechanics)inverse mode computationpotential flowaerodynamic configurationssubsonic flowtransonic flowoptimizationpressure distributionDirichlet problemairfoilsboundary value problemsiterative solutionsNeumann problemsalgorithms To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f0a8f951-d0d3-4e9c-b730-93a6064b4933 Publisher Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium Access restriction Campus only Source NLR MP 84066 U Part of collection Aerospace Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c)1984 National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Files campus only