Efficient Algorithms for Future Aircraft Design: Contributions to Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

Advances in numerical optimization have raised the possibility that efficient and novel aircraft configurations may be ``discovered'' by an algorithm. To begin exploring this possibility, a fast and robust set of tools for aerodynamic shape optimization is developed. Parameterization and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hicken, Jason
Other Authors: Zingg, David W.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17772