03.4 - Applied Aerodynamics

MULTI-OBJECTIVE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF A LAUNCH VEHICLE FAIRING ACROSS MULTIPLE FLOW REGIMES

A. Petrillo¹, D. Palma¹, L. Pirillo¹, P.P. Ciottoli¹, M. Bernardini¹, F. Stella¹; ¹Sapienza university of Rome, Italy

This work presents a multi-objective shape optimization of a launch vehicle fairing across multiple flight regimes. Aerodynamic drag and peak surface heat flux are minimized using a CFD-based framework integrated in a generic algorithm procedure.

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DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0284