Adjoint Shape Optimization based on Large Eddy Simulations through an Adaptation of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes Equations KU Leuven
Industrial design developments are more and more assisted by computer optimization algorithms to speed up the design process. As nowadays the real designs are close to their optimal configurations, the challenge lies in the extraction of the last percentages of improvement, thus accurate evaluations of the performance are required while maintaining the fast industrial time scales. The present thesis proposes a methodology to be used in this ...