Evacuated tube transport, also known as Hyperloop, is a proposed mode of ground transport
that uses depressurised tubes to transport passengers and cargo at high-speeds. The …

A review of recent and historical work in the field of transonic and supersonic ground effect
aerodynamics has been conducted, focussing on applied research on wings and aircraft …

This paper outlines a new computational aerodynamic design optimisation algorithm using a
novel method of parameterising a computational mesh using 'control nodes'. The shape …

The land speed record vehicle, Bloodhound, undertook testing at subsonic and low
transonic speeds (up to Mach 0.8) at Hakskeen Pan, South Africa, during October and …

This paper describes the application of a parallel finite-volume compressible Navier–Stokes
computational fluid dynamics solver to the complex aerodynamic problem of a land-based …

The uncertainties of design variables, noise parameters, and metamodel are important
factors in simulation-based robust design optimization. Most conventional metamodel …

This paper presents an automated aerodynamic optimisation algorithm using a novel
method of parameterising the search domain and geometry by employing user–defined …

This paper describes the design optimisation study used to aerodynamically optimise the
fairings that cover the rear wheels of the Land Speed Record vehicle, BLOODHOUND …

The goal of the robust optimization is to obtain the optimal solution while ensuring that the
objective function value is not too sensitive to the uncertainties and the constraints are still …

An automated aerodynamic optimisation algorithm has been developed using a novel
method of parameterising a computational mesh making use of the concept of control nodes …