This article focuses on the formulation, validation and application of the continuous adjoint
method for turbulent flows in aero/hydrodynamic optimization. Though discrete adjoint has …

Shape optimization in unsteady flow problems enables the consideration of dynamic effects
on design. The ability to treat unsteady effects is attractive, as it can provide performance …

Inverse design is by far the most physically explicit method in the turbomachinery field for
designing a cascade airfoil shape for a prescribed distribution of aerodynamic parameters …

Unsteady blade row interactions play an important role in the performance of multistage
turbomachinery. However, most aerodynamic optimizations of multistage turbomachinery …

The possibility of taking into account unsteady flow effects if performing turbomachinery
shape optimization is attractive to accurately address inherently time dependent design …

Ducted propellers are widely used in eVTOL. The leading edge shape of the duct plays an
important role in the aerodynamic performance of the ducted propeller. In this work, an …

Improvements in aerodynamic turbomachinery design have gained attraction due to the
increased demand for a more sustainable future. Several optimization approaches have …

This paper presents the development of a fully implicit, low-memory discrete-adjoint method
by means of automatic source-code differentiation applied to the Helicopter Multi-Block …

A method using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to non-iteratively generate an optimal
mesh for an arbitrary blade passage is developed. Despite automation in mesh generation …

This paper investigated the performance of a radial flow turbine by coupling metaheuristic
algorithms with Computational Fluid Dynamics. We performed the optimization of the casing …