A parallel aerostructural shape optimization platform for airplane wings

2019-05-17
Oktay, Erdal
Arpacı, Anıl
Şehitoğlu, Onur Tolga
Akay, Hasan Umur
A parallel design platform is developed for aerostructural shape optimization of airplane wings. The developed tools consist of a panel method-based aerodynamic solver, a finite element-based structural solver, geometry and mesh generation modules and a parallel genetic algorithm optimizer, with emphasis given to automation and fast solutions
31st International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, May-14-17 2019,

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Citation Formats
E. Oktay, A. Arpacı, O. T. Şehitoğlu, and H. U. Akay, “A parallel aerostructural shape optimization platform for airplane wings,” Antalya, Turkey, 2019, p. 1, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87785.