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Aerodynamic shape optimization of a low drag fairing for small livestock trailers [PDF]
, 2008 Small livestock trailers are commonly used to transport animals from farms to market within the United Kingdom. Due to the bluff nature of these vehicles there is great potential for reducing drag with a simple add-on fairing.
Foxley, N.A. +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Due to the inherent uncertainties in material properties, loads, geometric dimensions, et al., the uncertainty-based optimization design method has become increasingly important for the design of the thermal protection system (TPS) by carefully ...
Ruixing Wang, Yan Luo
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Tiltrotor CFD part II: aerodynamic optimisation of tiltrotor blades [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents aerodynamic optimisation of tiltrotor blades with high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics. The employed optimisation framework is based on a quasi-Newton method, and the required high-fidelity flow gradients were computed using a
Barakos, G.N. +5 more
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Multi-Objective Aerodynamic Optimization of the Streamlined Shape of High-Speed Trains Based on the Kriging Model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Minimizing the aerodynamic drag and the lift of the train coach remains a key issue for high-speed trains. With the development of computing technology and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the engineering field, CFD has been successfully applied to ...
Gang Xu +4 more
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Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using Automatic Adaptive Remeshing [PDF]
, 1997 This work presents a new methodology base on the use adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques in the context of shape optimization problems analyzed by the Finite Element Method. A suitable and very general technique for the parametrization of the optimization problem using B-splines to define the boundary is first presented.
Bugeda, Gabriel +2 more
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State of the Art in the Optimisation of Wind Turbine Performance Using CFD [PDF]
, 2019 Wind energy has received increasing attention in recent years due to its sustainability and geographically wide availability. The efficiency of wind energy utilisation highly depends on the performance of wind turbines, which convert the kinetic energy ...
Haghnegahdar, Mohammad Amin +5 more
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An Improved Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Rotor Airfoil Design
Aerospace, 2023 In this study, a multi-objective aerodynamic optimization is performed on the rotor airfoil via an improved MOPSO (multi-objective particle swarm optimization) method.
Yongchuan Wu, Gang Sun, Jun Tao
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Multidisciplinary design of a micro-USV for re-entry operations [PDF]
, 2010 Unmanned Space Vehicles (USV) are seen as a test-bed for enabling technologies and as a carrier to deliver and return experiments to and from low-Earth orbit.
Liqiang, Hou +2 more
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Computational Aerodynamics: Solvers and Shape Optimization [PDF]
Journal of Heat Transfer, 2012 Aeronautics, and in particular aerodynamics, has been one of the main technological drivers for the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This paper presents a personal account of the main advances in the development of solvers and shape optimization techniques, which have contributed to make CFD an essential part of the design process of ...
Luigi Martinelli, Antony Jameson
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Conceptual-level evaluation of a variable stiffness skin for a morphing wing leading edge [PDF]
, 2019 A morphing leading edge produces a continuous aerodynamic surface that has no gaps between the moving and fixed parts. The continuous seamless shape has the potential to reduce drag, compared to conventional devices, such as slats that produce a discrete
Benini, E +8 more
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