Gradient-Based Optimum Aerodynamic Design Using Adjoint Methods

Continuous adjoint methods and optimal control theory are applied to a pressure-matching inverse design problem of quasi 1-D nozzle flows. Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle is used to derive the adjoint system and the reduced gradient of the cost functional. The properties of adjoint variables at the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xie, Lei
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27306
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04262002-101328/