Improving the Robustness of Adjoint-Based Airfoil Drag Reduction Design

Abstract:

The effect of steps in the line search on the consistence of adjoint-based drag reduction of airfoil is investigated in this paper. Constant step adopted in drag reduction design usually gives different optimization results and choice of constant step often depends on designers experience and optimization problem. Bracket method is applied to automatically give the optimal step in performing drag reduction design of airfoils RAE2822 and S73613 and the consistent optimal results are obtained. The results illustrate that the linear search method can automatically find the optimal step, and overcome the restriction on choice of user-defined constant step which is used in the traditional adjoint-based optimization method. That is, it reduces the dependence of step in the drag reduction design, and improves the robustness of the adjoint-based airfoil drag reduction optimization design method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 444-445)
• Pages: 259-263
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.444-445.259
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Yan Hong Fan
• Keywords: Adjoint Method, Airfoil Drag Reduction Design, Navier-Stokes Equation

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