Parallel Numerical Optimisation of Adaptive Transonic Airfoils
Th. Lutz, A. Sommerer and S. Wagner
Symposium Transsonicum IV, Göttingen, Germany, September 2 - 6, 2002
In: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 73, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-1608-5, 2003
Abstract:
In this paper a modular environment for the nested numerical optimisation of adaptive transonic airfoils is presented. Its efficiency is increased by an MPI based parallelisation approach. Several geometry parametrisation techniques were implemented and evaluated by means of the Taguchi method. Applying the optimisation tool, a transonic airfoil with an adaptive shock control bump was designed and compared to a supercritical airfoil optimised for identical design points.
