Abstract
A Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been applied to optimize a transonic wing shape for generic transport aircraft. A three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes (N-S) solver is used to evaluate aerodynamic performance. The N-S evaluation is parallelized on Numerical Wind Tunnel (NWT) at National Aerospace Laboratory in Japan, a parallel vector machine with 166 processing elements. Designed wings show a tradeoff between an increase of the airfoil thickness driven by a structural constraint and a reduction of the wave drag produced by a shock wave. The present result indicates that GA has found a best feasible solution in the given design constraints.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 1997 Jan 1 |
Event | 13th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, 1997 - Snowmass Village, United States Duration: 1997 Jun 29 → 1997 Jul 2 |
Other
Other | 13th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, 1997 |
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Country | United States |
City | Snowmass Village |
Period | 97/6/29 → 97/7/2 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)