03.4 - Applied Aerodynamics
ADJOINT-BASED STUDY OF THE AERODYNAMIC CENTER SHIFT IN THE TRANSONIC FLOW REGIME
A. Cato¹, M. Hayashi, Federal University of ABC, Brazil; J. Cavalcante¹, J. Qasem, Technical University of Munich, Germany; L. Kavabata¹, U. Costa¹, E. Volpe¹; ¹University of São Paulo, Brazil
This work aims to study the influence of compressibility effects on the aerodynamic center of airfoils by means of an appropriate continuous adjoint method formulation, which enables one to compute sensitivity gradients in a more general framework, that is, with respect to both geometric and non-geometric control parameters.