Numerical Predictions of Airfoil Acoustics with Inflow Turbulence

The interaction of a turbulent flow with the leading edge of a foil is one of the dominant noise sources for many engineering applications, including aircraft wings, (wind) turbine blades, and non-cavitating marine propellers such as those found on tidal turbines, naval vessels and submarines. Incorporating a better understanding of the...

Adjoint-Based Inverse Design of Axial Compressor Airfoils: Development & Evaluation of a New Design Method

Direct design optimisation methods for turbomachinery blades have consistently gained in popularity over time. This has been accomplished by significant advances in optimisation algorithms, and notably the development of adjoint-based gradient computation, which provides objective sensitivity information at comparatively low computational cost....

Multi-point aerodynamic shape optimization for airfoils and wings at supersonic and subsonic regimes

The second-generation of supersonic civil transport has to match ambitious targets in terms of noise reduction and efficiency to become economically and environmentally viable. High-fidelity numerical optimization offers a powerful approach to address the complex trade-offs intrinsic to this novel configuration. Past and current research however...