27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-2.6.1

CAD-BASED AERODYNAMIC SHAPE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION WITH THE DLR TAU CODE

M. Martin, E. Andrés, M. Wildhalm*, P. Bitrián, C. Lozano
INTA, Spain; *DLR, Germany

Keywords: shape design, gradient-based optimization, adjoint methods

We present an automatic tool for aerodynamic shape optimization based on the adjoint methodology to calculate the gradients and CAD-based NURBS for geometry description and deformation of the surface integrated in DLR’s TAU code.

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