Teaching::Optimal Shape Design in Fluid Dynamics

Optimal Shape Design in Fluid Dynamics - Wintersemester 2008/2009

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been exploited as an analysis tool in the aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industries for many years, and is now getting increasingly important for design optimization purposes. This lecture focuses on the numerical techniques for optimal shape design in fluid dynamics. It gives an introduction to the subject and presents various optimal design methods - well-established ones as well as active areas of research. These include single- and multi-criteria black box optimization methods, topological optimization for fluids, and adjoint-based shape optimization methods.

The lecture will be given as a 4-days block course starting in mid-February, including one afternoon of hands-on experience with optimization software at Volkswagen R&D.

General Information

Literature

• List of recommended literature
• Methodological overview: Approaches to Fluid Dynamic Optimization in the Car Development Process
• Recent publications