ISSN:
0271-2091
Keywords:
smallest drag
;
first-order necessary condition
;
second-order necessary condition
;
Engineering
;
Engineering General
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The problem of finding the shape of a body with smallest drag in a flow governed by the two-dimensional steady Navier-Stokes equations is considered. The flow is expressed in terms of a streamfunction which satisfies a fourth-order partial differential equation with the biharmonic operator as principal part. Using the adjoint variable approach, both the first- and second-order necessary conditions for the shape with smallest drag are obtained. An algorithm for the calculation of the optimal shape is proposed in which the first variations of solutions of the direct and adjoint problems are incorporated. Numerical examples show that the algorithm can produce the optimal shape successfully.
Additional Material:
7 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650210202
